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Mission To Zyxx
''Mission to Zyxx'' is a space opera comedy podcast series, created by and starring Alden Ford, Allie Kokesh, Jeremy Bent, Seth Lind, Winston Noel and Moujan Zolfaghari. The series premiered on September 6, 2017, and concluded its run on September 22, 2022, with the completion of its fifth season. The series was produced on the AudioBoom network for its first two seasons, before switching to Maximum Fun for the remainder of its run. ''Mission to Zyxx'' is a science fiction story set in a fictional universe where most of the known universe is under the authority of the Federated Alliance, and follows a crew tasked with acting as Federation ambassadors in the Zyxx Quadrant, an isolated part of space, to establish diplomatic relations with the inhabitants of its many planets. The overall story arc revolves around the crew progressively coming to revolt against the Federation and confront threats to the universe. 99 episodes were released, alongside a number of special episodes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Crutchley
Jeremy Crutchley is a British-born South African actor and singer. He played roles in the television series ''Salem'', ''Black Sails'', ''Leonardo'', ''Constantine'' and ''Hannibal'' and several theatre and cinema works in a career spanning for more than four decades. Personal life In 1978, he graduated with a B.A.(Hons) degree in drama, from the University of Natal, RSA. Career Crutchley's career began in the action comedy film ''Crazy Safari'' . Then in 1989, he played the role of "Billy Foul" in the film ''The Journey to the Center of the Earth''. In the 1990s, he acted in Africa-based films such as ''A Good Man in Africa'', ''Pride of Africa'' and two episodes of the television series ''Rhodes''. In 1978, he wrote and played the music and lyrics for plays ''Bloodbreath Anaesthetic'', and ''Sloper''. In 1984, he composed music for the play ''Brothers of The Head'' produced by Brian Aldiss. In 1992, he played the role as "Dr Frank’n’Furter" in the film ''The Rocky Horror S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tax Evasion
Tax evasion is an illegal attempt to defeat the imposition of taxes by individuals, corporations, trusts, and others. Tax evasion often entails the deliberate misrepresentation of the taxpayer's affairs to the tax authorities to reduce the taxpayer's tax liability, and it includes dishonest tax reporting, declaring less income, profits or gains than the amounts actually earned, overstating deductions, using bribes against authorities in countries with high corruption rates and hiding money in secret locations. Tax evasion is an activity commonly associated with the informal economy. One measure of the extent of tax evasion (the "tax gap") is the amount of unreported income, which is the difference between the amount of income that should be reported to the tax authorities and the actual amount reported. In contrast, tax avoidance is the legal use of tax laws to reduce one's tax burden. Both tax evasion and tax avoidance can be viewed as forms of tax noncompliance, as they desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brennan Lee Mulligan
Brennan Lee Mulligan (born January 4, 1988) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and gamemaster. He has worked with CollegeHumor as a sketch writer and performer, and as gamemaster for their ''Dungeons & Dragons'' web series, ''Dimension 20'', as well as writing the superhero webcomic '' Strong Female Protagonist'' alongside artist Molly Ostertag. Early life Mulligan was born on January 4, 1988, in New York as the son of Elaine Lee and Joe Mulligan. He was introduced to the role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' by his mother at age nine, first gamemastering at age ten. In 2005, at 17 years old, Mulligan graduated from SUNY Ulster with an associate degree, having majored in philosophy/humanities. Career Writing For many years in his teens, Mulligan was a lead story writer and performer for the live action role-playing summer camp, The Wayfinder Experience. Mulligan and Molly Ostertag co-created the webcomic '' Strong Female Protagonist'', which was named one of io9's Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zach Cherry
Zach Cherry is an American actor and improv comedian. He is known for his role as Dylan George on the Apple TV+ series ''Severance''. Life and career Zach Cherry was born in 1987. He attended Princeton Day School and Amherst College. He began taking improv lessons in 2011, and was placed on a house team at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York in 2017. In 2018, Cherry played a lead role in season one of Netflix's series ''You'', as bookstore clerk Ethan Russell. In 2022, Cherry had a lead role in the 2022 Apple TV+ series ''Severance''. He played Wolf on FOX's ''Duncanville'', Pete's manager Kevin on ''Crashing'' (2017–2019), and Norman on ''I Feel Bad'' (2018). He has also had minor roles on ''Succession'', ''Living with Yourself'', and ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings''. In August 2022, it was announced that Cherry and actress Ellie Kemper would host the sixth season of ''The Great American Baking Show'', an American adaptation of the baking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red-light District
A red-light district or pleasure district is a part of an urban area where a concentration of prostitution and sex-oriented businesses, such as sex shops, strip clubs, and adult theaters, are found. In most cases, red-light districts are particularly associated with female street prostitution, though in some cities, these areas may coincide with spaces of male prostitution and gay venues. Areas in many big cities around the world have acquired an international reputation as red-light districts. The term ''red-light district'' originates from the red lights that were used as signs for brothels. Origins of term Red-light districts are mentioned in the 1882 minutes of a Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting in the United States. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' records the earliest known appearance of the term "red light district" in print as an 1894 article from the '' Sandusky Register'', a newspaper in Sandusky, Ohio. Author Paul Wellman suggests that this and other te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Carlos
Jordan Carlos (born February 2, 1978) is an American stand-up comedian who played a recurring character on ''The Colbert Report'' and is a co-host on the Nickelodeon kids' show '' Me TV''. He also appeared as a panelist and reporter on ''The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore''. Career Early career Jordan Carlos graduated Brown University in 2001 and began work as a copywriter in a New York ad firm. At night and on weekends Carlos performed stand-up comedy. Eventually Carlos abandoned advertising altogether in favor of stand-up although he feels he had trouble finding a niche audience because he "wasn't a stereotypical black man". He learned to use that characteristic as the basis for many of his jokes. Role on ''The Colbert Report'' On ''The Colbert Report'' Carlos played Alan, host Stephen Colbert's "black friend". Whenever Colbert discussed racial issues, he often asked that a picture of him with his African-American co-worker Alan be shown on screen. Colbert sometimes referred t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Gabrus
Jon Gabrus (born January 31, 1982) is an American actor and comedian, best known for his work on ''Guy Code'', the podcast ''Comedy Bang! Bang!'', and TVLand's ''Younger (TV series), Younger''. He is a performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and hosts the ''High and Mighty'' podcast, as well as co-hosting the ''Raised By TV'' and ''Action Boyz'' podcasts. Early life and education Jonathan Gabrus was born and raised in Long Island in the town of Bellmore. He attended Mepham High School where he was a part of the football and swim teams. Gabrus was a lifeguard in the summers during school at Field 6, Jones Beach State Park. After graduation Gabrus attended Marist College where he played club rugby. Gabrus’ admission essay was about Popeye. Career Jon Gabrus began performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York in 2005 and currently performs at the theater in Los Angeles. At UCB, he has been a member of the teams Mailer Daemon, fwand, The Law Firm, and Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Group Mind (science Fiction)
A group mind, group ego, mind coalescence, or gestalt intelligence in science fiction is a plot device in which multiple minds, or consciousnesses, are linked into a single, collective consciousness or intelligence. The first alien hive society was depicted in H. G. Wells's ''The First Men in the Moon'' (1901) while the use of human hive minds in literature goes back at least as far as David H. Keller's ''The Human Termites'' (published in Wonder Stories in 1929) and Olaf Stapledon's science fiction novel ''Last and First Men'' (1930), which is the first known use of the term "group mind" in science fiction. The use of the phrase "hive mind", however, was first recorded in 1943 in use in bee keeping and its first known use in sci-fi was James H. Schmitz's ''Second Night of Summer'' (1950). A group mind might be formed by any fictional plot device that facilitates brain to brain communication, such as telepathy. This term may be used interchangeably with hive mind. "Hive mind" ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spacecraft
A spacecraft is a vehicle or machine designed to fly in outer space. A type of artificial satellite, spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, Earth observation, meteorology, navigation, space colonization, planetary exploration, and transportation of humans and cargo. All spacecraft except single-stage-to-orbit vehicles cannot get into space on their own, and require a launch vehicle (carrier rocket). On a sub-orbital spaceflight, a space vehicle enters space and then returns to the surface without having gained sufficient energy or velocity to make a full Earth orbit. For orbital spaceflights, spacecraft enter closed orbits around the Earth or around other celestial bodies. Spacecraft used for human spaceflight carry people on board as crew or passengers from start or on orbit (space stations) only, whereas those used for robotic space missions operate either autonomously or telerobotically. Robotic spacecraft used to support scientific re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sentience
Sentience is the capacity to experience feelings and sensations. The word was first coined by philosophers in the 1630s for the concept of an ability to feel, derived from Latin '':wikt:sentientem, sentientem'' (a feeling), to distinguish it from the ability to think (''reason''). In modern Western philosophy, sentience is the ability to experience Sense, sensations. In different Asian religions, the word 'sentience' has been used to translate a variety of concepts. In science fiction, the word "sentience" is sometimes used interchangeably with "Wisdom#Sapience, sapience", "self-awareness", or "consciousness". Some writers differentiate between the mere ability to perceive sensations, such as light or pain, and the ability to perceive emotions, such as fear or grief. The subjective awareness of experiences by a Consciousness, conscious individual are known as qualia in Western Philosophy of mind, philosophy. Philosophy and sentience In philosophy, different authors draw differen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retroactive Continuity
Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in which established diegetic facts in the plot of a fictional work (those established through the narrative itself) are adjusted, ignored, supplemented, or contradicted by a subsequently published work which recontextualizes or breaks continuity with the former. There are various motivations for applying retroactive continuity, including: * To accommodate desired aspects of sequels or derivative works which would otherwise be ruled out. * To respond to negative fan reception of previous stories. * To correct and overcome errors or problems identified in the prior work since its publication. * To change or clarify how the prior work should be interpreted. * To match reality, when assumptions or projections of the future are later proven wrong. Retcons are used by authors to increase their creative freedom, on the assumption that the changes are unimportant to the audience compared to the new story which can be tol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robot
A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within. Robots may be constructed to evoke human form, but most robots are task-performing machines, designed with an emphasis on stark functionality, rather than expressive aesthetics. Robots can be autonomous or semi-autonomous and range from humanoids such as Honda's ''Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility'' ( ASIMO) and TOSY's ''TOSY Ping Pong Playing Robot'' (TOPIO) to industrial robots, medical operating robots, patient assist robots, dog therapy robots, collectively programmed ''swarm'' robots, UAV drones such as General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, and even microscopic nano robots. By mimicking a lifelike appearance or automating movements, a robot may convey a sense of intelligence or thought of its own. Autonomous things are expected to proliferate in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
