Amber Lynn Moelter (born September 23, 1980) is an American actress, film director and singer-songwriter.
Amber Moelter was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota. After living in Seoul, South Korea, from age eight to eleven, she grew up in the northern suburbs of St. Paul, Minnesota, where her family settled after returning to the United States.
Having trained in dance, theater and gynnastics at high school, she attended Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, studying Contemporary and Classical Dance Performance and graduated in 2000. While living in Australia she made her screen debut, appearing in .
Relocating to London, Moelter studied at the London Studio Centre (Middlesex University) and graduated with a in Theatre Dance (Musical Theatre) in 2003. Alongside her studies, she acted onstage in school productions and showcases of A Chorus Line (Sheila Bryant), (Roxie Hart) and Into the Woods (The Witch). She also appeared in the off-West End production of Cosi at The Bridewell Theatre.
In early 2005 she played the title role in Catwoman: Copycat, a fan film about the DC Comics character Catwoman which was never completed. An article about the film appeared in issue 39, along with a picture of Moelter in the character's latex catsuit.
The following year Moelter moved to New York and formed her own production company, ALM Talkies. Its first production was another Catwoman fan film, Catwoman: Resolution, released online on January 1, 2007. The character's purple and black catsuit was custom-made by Vex Clothing of Chicago, and based on the costume designed by Jim Balent for the Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham Elseworlds comic book.
In 2009 Moelter completed her directorial debut Dirty Step Upstage, which she also wrote, acted in, and edited. The film is loosely based on events that transpired when she attended the MIDEM music trade fair in 2006. Dirty Step Upstage was selected as the opening night film of the 2009 Chashama Film Festival, an event affiliated with the Chashama non-profit arts organization based in New York and held in October 2009. Moelter won the Best Actress award at the festival. In December 2009 the film was nominated in ten categories at the Maverick Movie Awards, and Nova Reid won the Best Actress award.
The soundtrack to Dirty Step Upstage included two songs written and performed by Moelter. In September 2009 these songs were included on the Disguise EP, released by Moelter under the stage name of Girl In The Red Dress, a character from the film. The musicians on the EP included guitarist .
The latex costumes worn by Moelter as Catwoman and Girl In The Red Dress have given her a following in the latex fetish subculture. Marquis featured her for a second time in issue 46, in an interview and pictorial focusing on the two characters.
Amber Moelter was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota. After living in Seoul, South Korea, from age eight to eleven, she grew up in the northern suburbs of St. Paul, Minnesota, where her family settled after returning to the United States.
Having trained in dance, theater and gynnastics at high school, she attended Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, studying Contemporary and Classical Dance Performance and graduated in 2000. While living in Australia she made her screen debut, appearing in .
Relocating to London, Moelter studied at the London Studio Centre (Middlesex University) and graduated with a in Theatre Dance (Musical Theatre) in 2003. Alongside her studies, she acted onstage in school productions and showcases of A Chorus Line (Sheila Bryant), (Roxie Hart) and Into the Woods (The Witch). She also appeared in the off-West End production of Cosi at The Bridewell Theatre.
In early 2005 she played the title role in Catwoman: Copycat, a fan film about the DC Comics character Catwoman which was never completed. An article about the film appeared in issue 39, along with a picture of Moelter in the character's latex catsuit.
The following year Moelter moved to New York and formed her own production company, ALM Talkies. Its first production was another Catwoman fan film, Catwoman: Resolution, released online on January 1, 2007. The character's purple and black catsuit was custom-made by Vex Clothing of Chicago, and based on the costume designed by Jim Balent for the Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham Elseworlds comic book.
In 2009 Moelter completed her directorial debut Dirty Step Upstage, which she also wrote, acted in, and edited. The film is loosely based on events that transpired when she attended the MIDEM music trade fair in 2006. Dirty Step Upstage was selected as the opening night film of the 2009 Chashama Film Festival, an event affiliated with the Chashama non-profit arts organization based in New York and held in October 2009. Moelter won the Best Actress award at the festival. In December 2009 the film was nominated in ten categories at the Maverick Movie Awards, and Nova Reid won the Best Actress award.
The soundtrack to Dirty Step Upstage included two songs written and performed by Moelter. In September 2009 these songs were included on the Disguise EP, released by Moelter under the stage name of Girl In The Red Dress, a character from the film. The musicians on the EP included guitarist .
The latex costumes worn by Moelter as Catwoman and Girl In The Red Dress have given her a following in the latex fetish subculture. Marquis featured her for a second time in issue 46, in an interview and pictorial focusing on the two characters.
Craig Weatherhill (born 1950) is an British author both of fiction and non-fiction works about Cornwall.
Biography
Raised in St Just in Penwith and then in Falmouth, after serving in the forces he developed a career in conservation and architecture.
He conducted extensive archaeological surveys of West Cornwall under the tutelage of P. A. S. Pool, the Cornish historian, much of which has subsequently been published. His reconstruction of West Cornwall courtyard houses (drawings and artwork) is now the accepted form for these buildings. In the 1980s Weatherhill published two works on Cornish prehistoric and early medieval archaeology: Belerion and Cornovia. Both books were updated and republished as one volume in 2009.
His works of fiction include a trilogy: The Lyonesse Stone, Seat of Storms and The Tinners' Way. In November 2009, the first part was published in Cornish by Evertype, with the title Jowal Lethesow— Another novel, Nautilus, was published in 2009; it is a modern sequel to the Jules Verne classics Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas and The Mysterious Island.
Weatherhill is a campaigner about Cornwall, the Cornish language, culture and people, and has written articles in local magazines (including Cornwall Today) and newspapers (including the Western Morning News) relating to the environment, erosion of Cornish culture, constitutional and linguistic rights for the Cornish speaking population.
Over the years, he has been a frequent presenter of these issues, He has appeared on both BBC Radio Cornwall and on television as a historian and actor on horseback; notably ITV's Time Travels - The Battle of Vellan-druchar and Westcountry Tales - The Lost Land of Lyonesse.
Weatherhill is considered one of Cornwall’s foremost experts on place-names, and is one of the leading historical and language contributors to Cornish World magazine. In August 2009, he delivered a lecture on the place-names of Cornwall to the International Celtic Congress held in Sligo.
Books by Craig Weatherhill
Nonfiction
*The Principal Antiquities of the Land’s End District, with P. A. S. Pool and Professor Charles Thomas (Cornwall Archaeological Society, 1980)
*Belerion: Ancient Sites of Land’s End (Alison Hodge, 1981 & 1985; Halsgrove, 1989 & 2000)
*Cornovia: Ancient Sites of Cornwall & Scilly (Alison Hodge, 1985; Halsgrove 1997 & 2000)
*Myths & Legends of Cornwall with Paul Devereux (Sigma Press, 1994 & 1997)
*Cornish Place Names & Language (Sigma Press, 1995, 1998 & 2000) ISBN 1-85058-462-1
*Place Names in Cornwall & Scilly (Wessex/Westcountry Books 2005)
*Cornish Place Names & Language; completely revised edition (Sigma Press, 2007) ISBN 978-1-85058-837-5
*Cornovia: Ancient Sites of Cornwall and Scilly, 4000 BC - 1000 AD (Halsgrove, 2009)
*A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names (Evertype, 2009) ISBN 978-1-904808-22-0
Fiction
*The Lyonesse Stone (Tabb House 1991)
*Seat of Storms (Tabb House 1995)
*The Tinners’ Way (Tabb House 2010)
*Jowal Lethesow—The Lyonesse Stone in Cornish (Evertype 2009) ISBN 978-1-904808-30-5
*Nautilus (Evertype, 2009) ISBN 978-1-904808-40-4
Biography
Raised in St Just in Penwith and then in Falmouth, after serving in the forces he developed a career in conservation and architecture.
He conducted extensive archaeological surveys of West Cornwall under the tutelage of P. A. S. Pool, the Cornish historian, much of which has subsequently been published. His reconstruction of West Cornwall courtyard houses (drawings and artwork) is now the accepted form for these buildings. In the 1980s Weatherhill published two works on Cornish prehistoric and early medieval archaeology: Belerion and Cornovia. Both books were updated and republished as one volume in 2009.
His works of fiction include a trilogy: The Lyonesse Stone, Seat of Storms and The Tinners' Way. In November 2009, the first part was published in Cornish by Evertype, with the title Jowal Lethesow— Another novel, Nautilus, was published in 2009; it is a modern sequel to the Jules Verne classics Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas and The Mysterious Island.
Weatherhill is a campaigner about Cornwall, the Cornish language, culture and people, and has written articles in local magazines (including Cornwall Today) and newspapers (including the Western Morning News) relating to the environment, erosion of Cornish culture, constitutional and linguistic rights for the Cornish speaking population.
Over the years, he has been a frequent presenter of these issues, He has appeared on both BBC Radio Cornwall and on television as a historian and actor on horseback; notably ITV's Time Travels - The Battle of Vellan-druchar and Westcountry Tales - The Lost Land of Lyonesse.
Weatherhill is considered one of Cornwall’s foremost experts on place-names, and is one of the leading historical and language contributors to Cornish World magazine. In August 2009, he delivered a lecture on the place-names of Cornwall to the International Celtic Congress held in Sligo.
Books by Craig Weatherhill
Nonfiction
*The Principal Antiquities of the Land’s End District, with P. A. S. Pool and Professor Charles Thomas (Cornwall Archaeological Society, 1980)
*Belerion: Ancient Sites of Land’s End (Alison Hodge, 1981 & 1985; Halsgrove, 1989 & 2000)
*Cornovia: Ancient Sites of Cornwall & Scilly (Alison Hodge, 1985; Halsgrove 1997 & 2000)
*Myths & Legends of Cornwall with Paul Devereux (Sigma Press, 1994 & 1997)
*Cornish Place Names & Language (Sigma Press, 1995, 1998 & 2000) ISBN 1-85058-462-1
*Place Names in Cornwall & Scilly (Wessex/Westcountry Books 2005)
*Cornish Place Names & Language; completely revised edition (Sigma Press, 2007) ISBN 978-1-85058-837-5
*Cornovia: Ancient Sites of Cornwall and Scilly, 4000 BC - 1000 AD (Halsgrove, 2009)
*A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names (Evertype, 2009) ISBN 978-1-904808-22-0
Fiction
*The Lyonesse Stone (Tabb House 1991)
*Seat of Storms (Tabb House 1995)
*The Tinners’ Way (Tabb House 2010)
*Jowal Lethesow—The Lyonesse Stone in Cornish (Evertype 2009) ISBN 978-1-904808-30-5
*Nautilus (Evertype, 2009) ISBN 978-1-904808-40-4
Sharing Sunday is the Sunday immediately following the Thanksgiving holiday. The theme of Sharing Sunday is to reduce consumption by promoting re-use and sharing of any possessions.
Peer-to-peer sharing
Peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing is an accepted and growing form of collaborative use of goods and services. It is rooted in the fundamentals of peer-to-peer networks, building on existing communities wherein inherent trust exists. Relying upon a distributed inventory of goods which are owned and used by peers or sub-entities within a larger community, P2P encourages reuse and increased access and utilization of assets over individual ownership or consumerism.
“Sharing is to ownership what the iPod is to the eight-track, what the solar panel is to the coal mine. Sharing is clean, crisp, urbane, postmodern; owning is dull, selfish, timid, backward.”
“I don’t want stuff, I want the needs or experiences it fulfills! This is fueling massive shift, where usage trumps possession.”
“I believe it will be referred to as a revolution, so to speak, when society, faced with great challenges, makes a seismic shift from individual getting and spending toward the rediscovery of collective good.” - Rachel Botsman, Author What’s Mine is Yours, at TEDx Sydney, May 2010
“With all the lawn mowers, table saws, and complete collections of CSI DVDs sitting around gathering dust in the shadowy corners of our homes, you would think the idea to rent out unused stuff would have come sooner. Especially as we inch our way out of the recession with the mantra, ‘frugality is the new black!’” - Lydia Dishman, Fast Company, June 2010
”The first wave of Internet innovation helped people connect to information. The second connected people to each other. The next is about connecting people to stuff. This could be the biggest shift yet. The organizing principles of the Internet are now restructuring our material world moving us from an ownership to an access economy.”
Neal Gorenflo, Sharable Magazine, October 2010
“People are looking for ways of living that are more sustainable - not only environmentally sustainable, but economically and personally sustainable. One of the most sustainable choices we can make is sharing” Janelle Orsi, The Sharing Solution, 2009
Origin and history
Sharing Sunday was created in 2010 by the founding team of Rentalic.com. Inspiration for creating Sharing Sunday was the success of Black Friday and, recently, Small Business Saturday. Sharing Sunday exists to raise awareness for P2P sharing through the efforts of organizations, businesses, and individuals working toward building more resilient, environmentally and socially responsible communities. All are encouraged to share something (e.g. an item, service, or unused space) with family, friends, or the community on this day.
Initial support was obtained through Rentalic.com founder Punsri Abeywickrema’s social networking campaign with recognition from several organizations including: Shareable.net, Yert.com, SharingSolution.com, Getaround.com, CollaborativeConsumption.com, and San Francisco-based Hayes Valley Farm. These organizations first joined hands with Rentalic.com over the Thanksgiving holiday to promote Sharing Sunday in 2010.
Peer-to-peer sharing
Peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing is an accepted and growing form of collaborative use of goods and services. It is rooted in the fundamentals of peer-to-peer networks, building on existing communities wherein inherent trust exists. Relying upon a distributed inventory of goods which are owned and used by peers or sub-entities within a larger community, P2P encourages reuse and increased access and utilization of assets over individual ownership or consumerism.
“Sharing is to ownership what the iPod is to the eight-track, what the solar panel is to the coal mine. Sharing is clean, crisp, urbane, postmodern; owning is dull, selfish, timid, backward.”
“I don’t want stuff, I want the needs or experiences it fulfills! This is fueling massive shift, where usage trumps possession.”
“I believe it will be referred to as a revolution, so to speak, when society, faced with great challenges, makes a seismic shift from individual getting and spending toward the rediscovery of collective good.” - Rachel Botsman, Author What’s Mine is Yours, at TEDx Sydney, May 2010
“With all the lawn mowers, table saws, and complete collections of CSI DVDs sitting around gathering dust in the shadowy corners of our homes, you would think the idea to rent out unused stuff would have come sooner. Especially as we inch our way out of the recession with the mantra, ‘frugality is the new black!’” - Lydia Dishman, Fast Company, June 2010
”The first wave of Internet innovation helped people connect to information. The second connected people to each other. The next is about connecting people to stuff. This could be the biggest shift yet. The organizing principles of the Internet are now restructuring our material world moving us from an ownership to an access economy.”
Neal Gorenflo, Sharable Magazine, October 2010
“People are looking for ways of living that are more sustainable - not only environmentally sustainable, but economically and personally sustainable. One of the most sustainable choices we can make is sharing” Janelle Orsi, The Sharing Solution, 2009
Origin and history
Sharing Sunday was created in 2010 by the founding team of Rentalic.com. Inspiration for creating Sharing Sunday was the success of Black Friday and, recently, Small Business Saturday. Sharing Sunday exists to raise awareness for P2P sharing through the efforts of organizations, businesses, and individuals working toward building more resilient, environmentally and socially responsible communities. All are encouraged to share something (e.g. an item, service, or unused space) with family, friends, or the community on this day.
Initial support was obtained through Rentalic.com founder Punsri Abeywickrema’s social networking campaign with recognition from several organizations including: Shareable.net, Yert.com, SharingSolution.com, Getaround.com, CollaborativeConsumption.com, and San Francisco-based Hayes Valley Farm. These organizations first joined hands with Rentalic.com over the Thanksgiving holiday to promote Sharing Sunday in 2010.
Skoosh is a word from the Scots Language (Scotland) meaning EASY performed or easily flowing. Example of use is to state something was a skoosh or is a skoosh.
Skoosh can also be related to the noise of something moving quickly and easily.
Scots words have been used around various parts of Scotland for centuries. Many words derive from Scottish Gaelic, Viking (Scandinavian), French (badly pronounced) and other local Scottish dialects.
Many people suggest words used in Scotland along with the English language that are not directly native to Scottish Gaelic language are Scottish slang but this is incorrect considering the historical facts surrounding the use of words and the historical culture of Scotland.
Scots words have often made their way into other languages around the world and are quite often incorrectly used. In fact, the use of words such as Skoosh within an educational environment will be corrected for old fashioned teachings for the use of proper English. Although, the new Curriculum for Excellence within Scottish education acknowledges the Scots language and promotes the use of Scots within poetry and the arts.
Skoosh remains in use in Scotland today and forms part of a Scots tongue full of history.
More recent times have seen an English company use the word within a web address: www.skoosh.com and www.skoosh.co.uk for selling hotel rooms and the use of the word skoosh is unclear.
Other websites use the word skoosh in the context of the Scots tongue, namely: www.skooshmedia.com and www.skooshart.com
Skoosh can also be related to the noise of something moving quickly and easily.
Scots words have been used around various parts of Scotland for centuries. Many words derive from Scottish Gaelic, Viking (Scandinavian), French (badly pronounced) and other local Scottish dialects.
Many people suggest words used in Scotland along with the English language that are not directly native to Scottish Gaelic language are Scottish slang but this is incorrect considering the historical facts surrounding the use of words and the historical culture of Scotland.
Scots words have often made their way into other languages around the world and are quite often incorrectly used. In fact, the use of words such as Skoosh within an educational environment will be corrected for old fashioned teachings for the use of proper English. Although, the new Curriculum for Excellence within Scottish education acknowledges the Scots language and promotes the use of Scots within poetry and the arts.
Skoosh remains in use in Scotland today and forms part of a Scots tongue full of history.
More recent times have seen an English company use the word within a web address: www.skoosh.com and www.skoosh.co.uk for selling hotel rooms and the use of the word skoosh is unclear.
Other websites use the word skoosh in the context of the Scots tongue, namely: www.skooshmedia.com and www.skooshart.com