Initial commit of "midterm" folder containing the assignment

doesn't fulfil all the requirements for the midterm assignment yet....
Definitely agree. There's a comment a few lines above this "Once I know how, I'll put these in a database, rather than downloading them every time". That way the app could start with a baseline of actors, and could build up this list each time it ran using an asynchronous call. (I realise it's a pointless app BTW :)