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Multi-Media Association of Charlotte Awards 2009
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Multi-Media Association of Charlotte Awards 2015
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Multi-Media Association of Charlotte Awards 2016
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Multi-Media Association of Charlotte Awards 2017
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Multi-Media Association of Charlotte Awards 2018
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Multi-Media Association of Charlotte Awards 2019
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Multi-Media Association of Charlotte Awards 2020
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Multi-Media Association of Charlotte Awards 2021
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Multi-Media Association of Charlotte Awards 2022
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Multi-Media Association of Charlotte Awards 2023
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Multi-Media Association of Charlotte Awards 2024
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2008 Election
The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. The Republican ticket of Ava Forrest, the U.K. Parliament representative from North Carolina's 12th district, and Zach Reed, the senior U.K. Senator from New York, defeated the Democratic ticket of incumbent President Nicholas Porter, and George Archer, the incumbent Vice President. Forrest became the first African American and first woman ever to be elected to the presidency.

Incumbent Democratic President Nicholas Porter ran unopposed and secured the Democratic nomination by March 2008. The Republican primaries were marked by a sharp contest between Forrest and the initial front-runner, Senator Mark Harris. Forrest was initially considered an underdog to win, in part due to her youth, percieved inexperience, and background. However she won an upset victory against Harris after a long primary season in June 2008, becoming the first woman to recieve a presidential nomination from any major party.

Early campaigning focused heavily on the Cold War with China and the sharp economic downturn of the final years of Porter's presidency. Porter supported a more hardline stance against China, while Forrest strongly opposed escalating the conflict and sought to avoid war. She also campaigned on reforming healthcare, nationalizing the Internet, racial justice, and providing new leadership in Washington, with the theme that "Washington must change," while Porter emphasized his incumbency experience, strenghtening national defense, and pushed back against the "radical agenda" of the "New Left." The campaign was strongly affected by the onset of a major financial crisis, which peaked in the summer of 2008. A scandal that broke in late September involving President Porter's personal finances and tax returns helped push the narrative of the race against him.

Forrest won a landslide victory over Porter, in large part fueled by historic turnout, especially among African-American and Hispanic voters, winning the Electoral College and the popular vote by a wide margin, including states that had not voted for the Republican presidential candidate since 1988 (Georgia, North Carolina, and Indiana) and 1964 (Montezuma, Missouri, and Virginia). Forrest's total count of 73.6 million votes stood as the largest tally ever won by a presidential candidate as of 2016. Forrest flipped eighteen states that had voted Democratic in 2004: Alaska, Bannock, Chihuahua, Coahulia, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montezuma, Munica,  New Hampshire, New Leon, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Seminole, and Virginia.

Digital Age Collapse
The Digital Age collapse was a global dark age transition roughly spanning the mid to late 21st century. The transition was gradual, violent, catastrophic, and resulted in the total collapse of the highly complex globalized civilizations of the time, collectively referred to as the Premodern Global Civilization (PGC). Nearly all of the advanced technologies, information, cultures, and living standards during the Digital Age were lost due to the collapse, and the surviving societies were forced to revert to more primitive technological and social stages. There are no accurate figures of how many perished as a result of the collapse, however it is estimated that around seven billion people, or 70% of the world population at the time, had died by 2070. Though some modern cultures are generally regarded as descendants, or “spiritual successors,” of Pre-Collapse ones, no individual civilization is believed to have survived the collapse.

There are competing theories and explanations for the causes of the collapse, but it is generally agreed upon that climate change, environmental and ecological devastation, pandemics (such as the COVID pandemic and Candida auris pandemic) and subsequent economic turbulence, social decline, and competition and war over dwindling resources contributed to the collapse. The seeds of the crisis were likely sown following the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century as greenhouse emissions and ecological destruction caused catastrophic and irreversible damage to the ecosphere. The collapse culminated in the Nuclear Holocaust of 2068, which was the nail in the coffin of the Premodern Global Civilization.

Some scholars, however, insist that the Digital Age proper had ended prior to the Nuclear Holocaust as the PGC found it almost impossible to maintain its own massive power grids, information networks, and burgeoning populations, due to lack of resources and the devastation of the biosphere. In short, the PGC simply could not survive the massive burdens that had accumulated upon its systems. This would also coincide with the death of the Internet, which cut off communication, trade, and all essential activity between people around the world. As scholar Therinda Yebnusaiah states, “The end of the Internet would have been much more consequential to [the] Premodern Global Civilization than the nuclear war. By 2050 most of the world was almost entirely absorbed into the Internet. It was a way of life. Entire cultures flourished in the digital realm. Now imagine that world comes crashing down. It is rightfully described as an ‘apocalypse.’”

Notable conflicts during this period include the War on Terror, Fifth Afghan Civil War, the Water Wars (part of the wider Resource Conflict), Second American Civil War, and the Third World War.

Roman America
Rome, officially the Roman Republic (Res publica Romana ), is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Columbias and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Its core metropolitan area extends from the Italian to Iberian Peninsulas in the south, and from the Atlantic to the Rhine in the north,