Lloyd Gough

Credited as playing Ed Waverly, father-in-law of Richard Kimble in an episode of The Fugitive called “The Survivors “
Lloyd Gough (born Michael Gough; September 21, 1907 – July 23, 1984) was an American theater, film, and television actor.
Life and career.
Born Michael Gough in New York City, he was a noted character actor.
Gough also played "Daily Sentinel" crime reporter Mike Axford in the TV series "The Green Hornet" in 1966-1967.
Married to the actress Karen Morley, both were brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee and when they invoked the Fifth Amendment they were blacklisted, effectively terminating their careers in Hollywood until the late 1960s. In 1966 he played Richard Bayler in the "Perry Mason" episode, "The Case of the Scarlet Scandal." In 1952 he had appeared as the main villain in "Rancho Notorious", but his name was removed from the credits due to the blacklist. He would later appear in the film set during the Hollywood blacklist period, "The Front" (1976), and his name was accompanied by his blacklist date.
Gough was married to Karen Morley from 1943 until his death caused by an aortic aneurysm at the age of 76. They had one child.
Filmography.
His films and shows include:


Heinz Kurschildgen

Heinrich "Heinz" Kurschildgen, called the "goldmaker of Hilden", was a charlatan in pre-World War II Germany. He made numerous people, including Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, believe that he was able to make valuable resources such as gold, radium or petrol out of base materials.
Weimar Republic: gold and radium.
In 1914, the young Kurschildgen began an apprenticeship in a dye factory in Hilden. Fascinated by the chemicals he worked with, he cobbled together a chemical laboratory of his own and after a short time claimed to have made numerous sensational discoveries. He convinced several investors that he had found a way to make gold, and was prosecuted for fraud in 1922. Kurschildgen was, however, found to be not criminally responsible because of "dementia praecox", and the case was dismissed on the condition that Kurschildgen stop approaching investors with gold-making schemes.
Complying with this restriction, Kurschildgen then began claiming that he was able to synthesize radium, a very rare and expensive radioactive element. He demonstrated his "transmutation" of uranium oxide into radium to physicists of the University of Cologne, but declined to explain his procedure. When the newspapers took up his claims, the "Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt" examined them and found them to be fraudulent. In May 1928, as a result of the publicity Kurschildgen now enjoyed, the apothecary of his hometown Hilden had a bust of Kurschildgen installed in town, mockingly dedicated to the "genius goldmaker".
In 1929, Kurschildgen returned to the gold-making business. He unsuccessfully contacted the German president Paul von Hindenburg as well as "Reichsbank" president Hjalmar Schacht with proposals to manufacture gold to pay back Germany's World War I reparations. With private backers, Kurschildgen had more success, obtaining an advance of 100,000 "Reichsmark" from a Cologne businessman and an offer of 1 million marks from an American millionaire called Harris. In 1930, 15 of his defrauded clients brought criminal charges against him, and after being found criminally responsible (if "not very intelligent") this time, he was convicted to 18 months imprisonment. The news of his trial and conviction was reported as far away as Australia.
Nazi Germany: petrol.
After his release from prison, Kurschildgen sought the attention of the new Nazi government with claims of being able to make petrol from water. He was visited by Wilhelm Keppler, Hitler's scientific advisor, and agreed to reveal his methods to the "Reichspatentamt" as well as to surrender the exclusive rights to his invention to the government. After his claims seized the interest of high-ranking Nazis such as Werner Best and SS leader Heinrich Himmler, the Gestapo received a warning that Kurschildgen was prone to "fantastic experiments". He was visited by party leaders in his laboratory, who were not convinced by his petrol-making apparatus, and ordered the inventor with all his machinery to be moved to the "Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt" in Berlin.
After the physicists of the "Reichsanstalt" declared his contraption to be useless, Kurschildgen became a factor in Party intrigues. Joseph Goebbels sneered in a diary entry of 27 January 1935:
Kurschildgen was detained at the "Columbia-Haus" concentration camp in 1936, and sentenced by a criminal court to three years of imprisonment. He was released early for "diligence and good behavior" in 1938, but was soon rearrested on Himmler's orders, who feared that Kurschildgen would reveal his involvement with the SS and thereby embarrass Himmler. Kurschildgen however successfully petitioned Gestapo head Reinhard Heydrich to obtain his definitive release.
After the war: attempts at rehabilitation.
After the end of World War II, Kurschildgen unsuccessfully sought to be recognized as a victim of Nazi persecution, claiming that "the Gestapo would stop at nothing to get at my invention". He retained his old acquaintance Werner Best as legal counsel, whom he had supported in de-Nazification proceedings by testifying to Best's good conduct towards detainees.
Best proposed requesting a pardon for the 1936 conviction, which Kurschildgen refused. Kurschildgen then spent years trying to have his conviction overturned, which the "Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf" ultimately declined to do.
Further reading.
Kurschildgen's exploits are reported in "The goldmakers: 10,000 years of alchemy" by Kurt Karl Doberer (1948), "The natural science of stupidity" by Paul Tabori (1962) and (under the heading "worst alchemist") in "Best, worst, and most unusual" by Bruce Felton and Mark Fowler (1985).


Service Modeling Language

Service Modeling Language (SML) and Service Modeling Language Interchange Format (SML-IF) are a pair of XML-based specifications created by leading information technology companies that define a set of XML instance document extensions for expressing links between elements, a set of XML Schema extensions for constraining those links, and a way to associate Schematron rules with global element declarations, global complex type definitions, and/or model documents. The SML specification defines model concepts, and the SML-IF specification describes a packaging format for exchanging SML-based models.
SML and SML-IF were standardized in a W3C working group chartered to produce W3C Recommendations for the Service Modeling Language by refining the “Service Modeling Language” (SML) Member Submission, addressing implementation experience and feedback on the specifications. The submission was from an industry group consisting of representatives from BEA Systems, BMC, CA, Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems. They were published as W3C Recommendations on May 12, 2009. In the market and in applying by vendors, SML is seen as a successor/replacement for earlier developed standards like DCML and Microsoft's (in hindsight) proprietary System Definition Model or SDM. See for a historically helpful relation between SDM and DCML, and for the joint pressrelease announcing SML. In the Microsoft section of it the sequel role to SDM is mentioned.
Fast Formal Facts about SML.
The Service Modeling Language (SML) is a language for building a rich set of constructs for creating and constraining models of complex IT services and systems. SML-based models could include information about configuration, deployment, monitoring, policy, health, capacity planning, target operating range, service level agreements, and so on.
An SML model is a set of interrelated XML documents. An SML model could contain information about the parts of an IT service, as well as the constraints that each part must satisfy for the IT service to function properly. Constraints are captured in two ways:
Once a model is defined, one of the important operations on the model is to establish its validity. This involves checking whether all model documents satisfy the XML Schema and rule document constraints.
SML-Based Models.
Models provide value in several important ways:


Adnan Kassar

Adnan Kassar (Arabic: عدنان القصار; born 1930) is a Lebanese banker, businessman and politician, who served at different cabinet posts.
Early life and education.
Kassar was born into a Sunni family in Beirut in 1930. He received a law degree from St. Joseph University in 1951.
Career.
In addition to being a businessman, he is a banker dealing finance investments. He has founded and owns various companies concerning trade, shipping and travel, and industry and chairman of Fransabank Group. Kassar served as the president of the Beirut Chamber of Commerce and Industry for nearly thirty years; to which he was elected in January 1972. In June 1997, he became the president of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture in Lebanon. From 1999 to 2000, he headed the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) based in Paris. On 1 January 2001, Richard McCormick, who served as his deputy at the ICC, succeeded Kassar as head of the ICC.
In January 2003, Kassar was appointed member of the patrons committee of the Anglo-Arab organisation. In addition, Kassar and his brother are shareholders of Fransabank, a large Lebanese commercial bank. Kassar is chairman of the bank. He is also chairman of the general union of Arab chambers of commerce, industry and agriculture and of Lebanon’s economic committees.
In October 2004, Kassar was appointed minister of economy and trade in the cabinet led by prime minister Omar Karami, replacing Marwan Hamadeh as economy minister. His tenure lasted until the year 2005, when Karami resigned from office due to the pressures exerted by Lebanese people as a protest over the assassination of Rafik Hariri. Kassar was succeeded by Demianos Khattah in the post. Later Kassar served as the minister of state in the cabinet led by prime minister Saad Hariri from November 2009 to 2011. Kassar was one of the cabinet members appointed by the Lebanese president Michel Suleiman.
Kassar has been regarded as a potential prime minister since the beginning of the 2000s.
Awards.
Kassar has also been given other awards, including, Commander of the Order of La Pléiade and the prize of the Crans Montana Forum (2000).
Personal life.
Kassar was born to Wafiq Kassar, a prominent diplomat who served as Ambassador of Lebanon in Pakistan and Turkey. Kassar is married Raidaa Nathem AlMisqawi and has a daughter, Roula Kassar.


Pakal (film)

Pakal is a 2006 Malayalam film directed by M. A. Nishad, starring Prithviraj and Jyothirmayi in the lead role.
Plot.
"Pakal" takes us into the world of farmers, of the high ranges of Wayanad District of Kerala, who are forced to commit suicide following financial problems. The story has a lot of potential with a relevant political issue and there are some political comments too—like hints at the failure of the government machinery and religious institutions, which ought to come to the aid of the peasants. The film opens with the protagonist Nandakumar (Prithviraj), who is a reporter of the television channel "Kerala Today", being sent to "Pannakamkudi " to do a regular series on the plight of the farmers of the area. He alights on the mission with his cameraman Abu (Sudheesh) to the high ranges, delivering daily reports in the prime time news about the crop failure, low prices for agricultural products, inability to repay loans issued by banks and cut-throat interest rates charged by private financiers, which eventually force the peasants to commit mass suicides.
Nandakumar and his crew meet 87-year-old Kochuthekkethil Kunjappan (Thilakan) in the verandah of the village office. He is one of the early settlers of the region and has been demonstrating before the village office since 14 years seeking justice from the authorities who seize his farmland, branding him a millionaire. And from the directives of the old man and the local priest Abraham Thekkilakkaadan, they meet Thenginthottathil Joseph (T G Ravi) and his family members, who are in the grip of severe financial problems and on the brink of desperation and even suicide. Joseph's eldest daughter Merlin (Sreeja Chandran) works for a private exporting company and his second daughter Celine (Jyothirmayi) is a medical student who is currently pursuing her final year house surgeonship. The family and the villagers pin all their hopes on Celine, who will be the first doctor from the village. Joseph who had to borrow loans from four different banks for his daughter's educational expenses finds it hard to settle the accounts.
Slowly the media team becomes a part of the village, and their serialized investigative reports on Kerala Today, start to cause many people in the government circles and the local heartless money lender Ummachan (Jagadish), lose their sleep. The crew faces many hardships in the village as many even manhandle the team. The media management goes a step further and asks Nandakumar to stop reporting on the issue and to return to the city. But he turns down the request and continues there. But as days pass by, the villagers’ plights become more hapless as many more suicides follow, including that of Merlin and Joseph. What follows in the film is how Nandakumar, with the support of Celine and other villagers, finds ways to rescue the villages from the chaos that they face.


Antenna House Formatter

Antenna House Formatter (AH Formatter) is a proprietary software program that uses either XSL-FO or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to convert XML and HTML documents into PDF, SVG, PostScript, XPS, text, and Microsoft Word formats. It supports 30 scripts and over 80 languages.
AH Formatter is developed by Antenna House Co., Ltd, based in Tokyo, Japan. International sales and support is provided by Antenna House, Inc., based in Newark, DE, USA.
History.
The first English-language release of "Antenna House XSL Formatter" was announced on the XSL-List mailing list on 22 November 2000.
Antenna House XSL Formatter V1.2 Alpha was one of six XSL Formatters that provided the test results for the test suite for the XSL 1.0 Candidate Recommendation that was required for XSL 1.0 to proceed to the Proposed Recommendation stage.
In December 2008, Antenna House Co., Ltd announced the availability of Antenna House Formatter V5.0 with support for both XSL-FO and CSS. The product supporting both XSL-FO and CSS was released as "AH Formatter", and single stylesheet language versions were released as "AH XSL Formatter" and "AH CSS Formatter".
Uses.
Antenna House Formatter is used, for example, to generate PDF from JATS, DITA or DocBook XML.
AH CSS Formatter is used in the "md2pdf" GitHub project for Markdown to PDF conversion.


Uma Subramaniam

Uma Subramaniam is an officer of the Reserve Bank of India, who got embroiled in the sensational Rs 20 lakh scam in December 2003 by a hoax caller claiming to be the then RBI Governor Y. V. Reddy. Although the amount involved was small, the modus operandi of the fraud and its subsequent ramifications were unparalleled in the history of Indian banking and finance system.
Professional career.
During her long career in the Reserve Bank, Subramaniam worked as Regional Director of RBI Bhopal, and Chief General Manager of the important Departments of Banking Supervision (DBS) and Non-Banking Supervision (DNBS) at Mumbai.
She also excelled as an academician in the field of banking and finance, having donned the chair of Principal of "Reserve Bank of India Staff College", Chennai and Vice Principal of "Bankers' Training College", Mumbai. She is widely respected for her erudition in the field of financial regulation.
Throughout her career she had the reputation of being an honest and upright officer, who never compromised with principles of ethics. It is alleged that, she was framed in the scam by unscrupulous colleagues who were miffed with her strictness at workplace.
The Scandal.
On 18 December 2003, Reserve Bank of India was rocked by one of the most sensational frauds in its history, when Uma Subramaniam, the then Regional Director of RBI, Bhopal, received a call from a person claiming to be a relative of the Governor Dr Y V Reddy, who "badly needed Rs 20 lakh in cash". Without verifying the identity of the caller, Uma Subramaniam arranged the money by asking her employees to immediately withdraw their cash. Subramaniam herself went in an autorickshaw and handed over the cash to the unknown person, who quietly walked away. Later it was discovered that the "Governor's relative" was an impostor. However, the identity of the impostor was never revealed and the case still remains a mystery.
Subsequent controversy.
Subramaniam was charge-sheeted following a departmental enquiry and was demoted from CGM rank to GM due to her gross negligence of duty. But subsequently she found favour with the RBI Top Management and was not only reinstated to her earlier position, but also given important portfolios like supervision and regulation of commercial banks and NBFCs. Her career was revived by the then Deputy Governor of RBI Shyamala Gopinath and she got promoted in 2007. Although she herself had once been embroiled in an act of financial irregularity, she was now given the charge of Monitoring of Fraud in NBFCs, an area where she had proved her efficiency.


Ed Ayres

Edward H. Ayres (born October 1941) is an American writer, editor, environmentalist and ultramarathon runner. He is the founding editor and publisher of "Running Times" magazine, and he served as editorial director of the Worldwatch Institute and editor of "Worldwatch", a bimonthly global-trends magazine. David M. Shribman states that Ayres has "inspired athletes worldwide and reshaped our ideas about endurance and sustainability".
Ayres grew up in the New Jersey towns of Berkeley Heights and Westfield. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1963 and briefly was a teacher at George School. He enjoys making furniture and sculptures out of geodes, petrified wood, and glass bottles.
He placed third in the first New York Marathon in 1970, and won the 1977 JFK 50 Mile.
In 1999, Ayres wrote "God's Last Offer: Negotiating for a Sustainable Future" in which he discusses four trends which he says threaten society: global warming caused by carbon dioxide, mass extinctions, a surge of consumption, and a population explosion. "Publishers Weekly" stated that "Ayres dismantles the perceptual obstructions that block our awareness of a crisis" but that he "comes up short in offering specific solutions" while Goodreads said that the book "presents a blueprint for a radical shift of policies and priorities to avoid a cataclysm".
In 2010, he was co-author of "Crossing the Energy Divide: Moving from Fossil-Fuel Dependence to a Clean Energy Future" (Prentice Hall).
Goodreads called his book "The Longest Race" (2012), an autobiography covering his attempt to run a 50-mile ultramarathon at age 60, an "urgent exploration of the connection between individual endurance and a sustainable society". "Kirkus Reviews" said that his " broad-ranging interests and accumulated wisdom will appeal to a wide readership, not just runners and environmentalists".
Ayres is a paleo-vegetarian who shopped at, and invested in, Whole Foods Market when the stock was still trading for well under $15/share. Ayres is married and has a daughter.


Zakef katan

Zakef Katan ( literally 'upright small'; various romanizations), often referred to simply as "katan", is a cantillation mark commonly found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books of the Hebrew Bible. The note is the anchor and final one of the Katon group, which also can include the Mapach, Pashta, Munach, or Yetiv. It is one of the most common cantillation marks. There is no limit to the number of times the Katan group can appear in a verse, and often, multiple Katan groups appear in succession. The most times in succession the group occurs is four.
The symbol for the Zakef katan is a colon (:). It is placed on the syllable of the word that is accented.
Zakef katan occurs in the Torah 6992 times.
Zakef katan is one of two versions of the "Zakef" trope, the other being Zakef gadol.
The Katan group.
In the Katan group, the trope can appear in the following patterns:


Pazer

Pazer (Hebrew: ) is a cantillation mark found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books of the Hebrew Bible. The pazer is generally followed by a Telisha ketana or gedola; on rare occasions when it is followed by another Pazer.
The Pazer is used to prolong a word significantly during the reading. This places strong emphasis on the meaning of the particular word.
The Hebrew word פָּזֵ֡ר translates into English as "distribute" or "disseminate". This relates to the high number of notes in its melody. It shows the distribution of divinity.


Musick Point / Te Naupata

Musick Point is the headland of the peninsula that forms the eastern shore of the Tamaki River in Bucklands Beach, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. In 1942 Musick Point was named after Ed Musick, an aviator who visited New Zealand in 1937, although the headland is also known as "Te Waiarohia", after an ancient Māori stronghold. Today it is occupied by a golf club and the Musick Memorial Radio Station.
The peninsula itself (known as "Te Naupata" in Māori) terminates between the Motukorea Channel and the Tamaki Strait in the Waitematā Harbour, Auckland. The residential areas of Bucklands Beach and Eastern Beach lie immediately to the south.
History.
The headland was originally used by Māori of the Ngai Tai iwi (tribe), who dug a ditch across the peninsula as part of Te Waiarohia Pā (sometimes recorded as Te Naupata Pa), until it was overrun by the neighbouring Ngapuhi iwi in 1821. Parts of the ditch are still clearly visible. The beaches and the sea were plentiful sources of food for the local population.
In 1836, , including the point, were bought by William Thomas Fairburn, a missionary, for 90 blankets, 24 adzes, 24 hoes, 14 spades, 80 pounds (money), of tobacco, 24 combs, and 12 plain irons. The land was later parcelled up and sold on. During the early settlers era it was called East Head.
Today it is a favorite spot for walking, wedding photos, sightseeing over the harbour and for recreational fishing, as well as being the site of a golf course.
Radio station.
Musick Point is the site of the Musick Memorial Radio Station, a building in the Streamline Moderne style, which was opened in 1942 to communicate with ships and aircraft. The station was the headquarters of the maritime coast station Auckland Radio ZLD, and of aviation radio ZLF.
The isolation of Musick Point, with its absence of man-made electrical interference, made it an ideal radio receiving site and was a welcome improvement over Auckland Radio's previous location in the Chief Post Office in downtown Auckland, which suffered interference from Auckland's electric tramway. Transmitters for the radio station were established a few kilometres away from Musick Point, in Oliver Road, Bucklands Beach, with remote control by the operators at the Point.
ZLD and ZLF were initially operated by the New Zealand Post Office before the aviation radio service was taken over by the Civil Aviation Corporation, which moved it to Auckland Airport at Mangere. Later, ownership of Auckland Radio changed to Telecom NZ Ltd, and Spark still uses the building for cellular services.
During World War II, a secondary radio bunker was built 300m south of the main building in case the main station was bombed. Because the area was isolated a water tower was built to store water for the small group of houses and the single workers accommodation that was built at the same time as the station, about 500m to the south of the main radio building.
Following the closure of all New Zealand coast radio stations in 1993, the equipment of Auckland Radio ZLD, including most of the Oliver Road transmitters, was acquired by the non-profit Musick Point Radio Group. The Group, which includes several former Musick Point operators and technicians, has a long-term lease on the building, and has reactivated the station on the amateur (ham) radio bands using some of the former ZLD transmitters along with a range of modern equipment. At a 2003 rededication of the building a plaque recognizing the "engineering heritage value" of the station was presented by the Institute of Professional Engineers New Zealand.
In recognition of the station's historical importance, the Group has been issued the amateur radio callsigns ZL1ZLD and ZL1ZLF. The Group maintains a radio museum in the building and operates a low-power FM broadcast station with recorded information about Musick Point. One of MPRG's projects was keeping the traditional marine radiotelegraph frequency of 512 kHz alive, and it had a special licence to operate on this frequency which is outside the normal amateur radio bands. These transmissions ceased in mid 2013 when amateurs were allocated a new 630 metre band (427–479 kHz) and authority to operate on 512 kHz was withdrawn.


Hazel Scott

Hazel Dorothy Scott (June 11, 1920 – October 2, 1981) was a Trinidadian-born jazz and classical pianist, singer, and actor. She was a critically acclaimed performing artist and an outspoken critic of racial discrimination and segregation. She used her influence to improve the representation of Black Americans in film.
Born in Port of Spain, Scott moved to New York City with her mother at the age of four. Scott was a child musical prodigy, receiving scholarships to study at the Juilliard School when she was eight. In her teens, she performed in a jazz band. She also performed on the radio.
She was prominent as a jazz singer throughout the 1930s and 1940s. In 1950, she became the first black American to host her own TV show, "The Hazel Scott Show". Her career in America faltered after she testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1950 during the McCarthy era. Scott subsequently moved to Paris in 1957 and began performing in Europe, not returning to the United States until 1967.
Early life.
Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on June 11, 1920, Hazel Dorothy Scott was the only child of R. Thomas Scott, a West African scholar from Liverpool, England, and Alma Long Scott, a classically trained pianist, and music teacher. In 1924, the family moved from Trinidad to the United States and settled in Harlem, New York City. By that time, Scott could play anything she heard on the piano. With her mother's guidance and training, she mastered advanced piano techniques and was labeled a child prodigy. A few years later, when Scott was eight years old, Professor Paul Wagner of the Juilliard School of Music accepted her as his own student. In 1933, her mother organized her own "Alma Long Scott's All-Girl Jazz Band," where Scott played the piano and trumpet.
Career.
By the age of 16, Hazel Scott regularly performed for radio programs for the Mutual Broadcasting System, gaining a reputation as the "hot classicist". In the mid-1930s, she also performed at the Roseland Dance Hall with the Count Basie Orchestra. Her early musical theatre appearances in New York included the "Cotton Club Revue of 1938", "Sing Out the News" and "The Priorities of 1942".
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Scott performed jazz, blues, ballads, Broadway and boogie-woogie songs, and classical music in various nightclubs. Thanks to the vision of Barney Josephson, the owner of Café Society, to establish a venue where artists of all races and ethnicities could perform, from 1939 to 1943, she was a leading attraction at both the downtown and uptown branches of Café Society. Her performances created national prestige for the practice of "swinging the classics." By 1945, Scott was earning $75,000 ($ today) a year.
In addition to Lena Horne, Scott was one of the first Afro-Caribbean women to garner respectable roles in major Hollywood pictures. She performed as herself in several features, notably "I Dood It" (MGM, 1943), "Broadway Rhythm" (MGM, 1944) with Lena Horne, in the otherwise all-white cast of "The Heat's On" (Columbia, 1943), "Something to Shout About" (Columbia, 1943), and "Rhapsody in Blue" (Warner Bros, 1945). In the 1940s, in addition to her film appearances, she was featured in Café Society's "From Bach to Boogie-Woogie" concerts in 1941 and 1943 at Carnegie Hall.
She was the first person of African descent to have their own television show in America, "The Hazel Scott Show", which premiered on the DuMont Television Network on July 3, 1950. "Variety" reported that "Hazel Scott has a neat little show in this modest package," its "most engaging element" being Scott herself.
Activism and blacklisting.
Civil rights struggle.
Scott had long been committed to civil rights, particularly in Hollywood. She refused to take roles in Hollywood that cast her as a "singing maid." When she began performing in Hollywood films, she insisted on having final cut privileges when it came to her appearance. In addition, she required control over her own wardrobe so that she could wear her own clothing if she felt that the studio's choices were unacceptable. Her final break with Columbia Pictures' Harry Cohn involved "a costume which she felt stereotyped blacks." Scott also refused to perform in segregated venues when she was on tour. She was once escorted from the city of Austin, Texas by Texas Rangers because she refused to perform when she discovered that black and white patrons were seated in separate areas. "Why would anyone come to hear me, a Negro," she told "Time" Magazine, "and refuse to sit beside someone just like me?"
In 1949, Scott brought a suit against the owners of a Pasco, Washington restaurant when a waitress refused to serve Scott and her traveling companion, Mrs. Eunice Wolfe, because "they were Negroes." Scott's victory helped African Americans challenge racial discrimination in Spokane, as well as inspiring civil rights organizations "to pressure the Washington state legislature to enact the Public Accommodations Act" in 1953.
McCarthyism.
With the advent of the Red Scare in the television industry, Scott's name appeared in "Red Channels: A Report on Communist Influence in Radio and Television" in June 1950. In an effort to clear her name, Scott voluntarily appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) on September 22, 1950, and insisted on reading a prepared statement. She denied that she was "ever knowingly connected with the Communist Party or any of its front organizations." However, she stated that she had supported Communist Party member Benjamin J. Davis's run for City Council, arguing that Davis was supported by socialists, a group that "has hated Communists longer and more fiercely than any other." She also expressed her frustrations with the mass amount of false accusations of entertainers and offered the suggestion to utilize “democratic methods to immediately eliminate a good many irresponsible charges.” Scott concluded her statement to the HUAC with a request that entertainers be not already "covered with the mud of slander and the filth of scandal" when proving their loyalty to the United States.
Her television variety program, "The Hazel Scott Show", was cancelled a week after Scott appeared before HUAC, on September 29, 1950. Scott suffered a nervous breakdown in 1951. On returning to full health, she played with Charles Mingus and Max Roach. Scott continued to perform in the United States and Europe, even getting sporadic bookings on television variety shows like "Cavalcade of Stars" and guest starring in an episode of CBS Television's "Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town" musical series. Scott's short-lived television show "provided a glimmer of hope for African American viewers" during a time of continued racial bias in the broadcasting industry and economic hardships for jazz musicians in general. Scott remained publicly opposed to McCarthyism and racial segregation throughout her career.
In France (1957-67).
To evade political fallout in the United States, Scott moved to Paris in 1957. She appeared in the French film "Le désordre et la nuit" (1958). In 1963, she marched with a number of other African-American expatriates, including James Baldwin, to the US Embassy in Paris to demonstrate support of the upcoming March on Washington.
Late USA years (1967-81).
She did not return to the US until 1967. By this time the Civil Rights Movement had led to federal legislation ending racial segregation and enforcing the protection of voting rights of all citizens in addition to other social advances.
Scott continued to play occasionally in nightclubs, while also appearing in daytime television until the year of her death. She made her television acting debut in 1973, on the ABC daytime soap opera "One Life to Live", performing a wedding song at the nuptials of her "onscreen cousin" Carla Gray Hall, portrayed by Ellen Holly.
Personal life.
In 1945, Scott married Baptist minister and US Congressman Adam Clayton Powell. They had one child, Adam Clayton Powell III, but divorced in 1960 after a separation. Their relationship provoked controversy, as Powell was married when their affair began. At the end of 1960 the two divorced and Powell married his secretary.
On January 19, 1961, she married Ezio Bedin, a Swiss-Italian comedian who was fifteen years her junior; they divorced a few years later, before her return to the US. Hazel Scott was also a member of the Baha'i Faith.
Death.
On October 2, 1981, Hazel Scott died of cancer at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. She was 61 years old and survived by her son Adam Clayton Powell III. She was buried at Flushing Cemetery in Queens, New York, near other musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Johnny Hodges, and Dizzy Gillespie (who died in 1993).
Legacy.
Scott was renowned as a virtuosic jazz pianist, in addition to her successes in dramatic acting and classical music. She also used her status as one of the best-known African-American entertainers of her generation to shine a spotlight on issues of racial injustice and civil rights.
Scott recorded as the leader of various groups for Decca, Columbia and Signature, among them a trio that consisted of Bill English and the double bass player Martin Rivera, and another trio with Charles Mingus on bass and Rudie Nichols on drums. Her 1955 album "Relaxed Piano Moods" on the Debut Record label, with Mingus and Max Roach, is generally her work most highly regarded by critics today. Her unique swinging style and fusion of jazz and classical influences kept her in demand for performances through the very end of her life.
Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys cited Scott as her inspiration for her performance at the 61st Grammy Awards, saying: "I've been thinking about people who inspire me; shout out to Hazel Scott, I've always wanted to play two pianos."
In 2020 she was the subject of the BBC World Service programme "Hazel Scott: Jazz star and barrier breaker" in the series "The Forum".
In "When Women Invented Television," author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong features her as one of four women who had a major influence on the medium.


Philip L. Fradkin

Philip L. Fradkin (February 28, 1935 – July 8, 2012) was an American environmentalist historian, journalist, and author. Fradkin authored books ranging from Alaska, California, and Nevada, with topics ranging from water conservation, earthquakes, and nuclear weapons.
Born in Manhattan, Fradkin grew up in Montclair, New Jersey and attended Montclair Kimberley Academy, graduating in the class of 1953.
In 1964, Fradkin began working for the "Los Angeles Times", and the following year was part of the metropolitan staff awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its work on the 1965 Watts riots. In 2005, Fradkin was given the California Award by the Commonwealth Club of California.
He commented on controversial issues such as plagiarism allegations towards Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "Angle of Repose", based on the letters of the American Old West author Mary Hallock Foote.


Prince (software)

Prince (formerly Prince XML) is a computer program that converts XML and HTML documents into PDF files by applying Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Prince is a commercial product, which is free to download and use for non-commercial purposes.
Prince supports all common web standards, including HTML, CSS and JavaScript, through its own code. That is, Prince is not based on a browser engine, but implements its own engine in the Mercury programming language.
Prince can generate accessible PDFs conforming to the PDF/UA profile (ISO 14289, the International Standard for accessible PDF technology) that can be used by people with assistive technologies.
Prince supports many languages, including Thai, Indic scripts (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, etc.) and right-to-left scripts like Arabic and Hebrew.
Prince is developed by YesLogic, a small company based in Melbourne, Australia. Since 2004, Håkon Wium Lie, the co-creator of CSS, has been chairman of the board.
History.
In April 2003, Prince 1.0 was released, with basic support for XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), and arbitrary XML. This first version was a command-line program that supported Microsoft Windows and Linux; there was no graphical user interface for Windows yet.
In December 2005, Prince 5.1 passed the Acid2 test from the Web Standards Project. It was the third user agent to pass the test, after Safari and Konqueror.
In June 2012, Prince 8.1 added support for HTML5.
In subsequent releases, CSS support has steadily been extended, both to have comparable support with web browsers (such as Opera and Firefox), and to add support for print-specific features, like page breaks and footnotes.
Prince is available for several plaforms, including Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and Solaris. Wrappers are available for Java SE, .NET Framework, ActiveX, PHP, Ruby on Rails and Node.js to help integrate Prince into websites and apps.
Technical summary.
Prince was developed using the Mercury functional logic programming language.
The main driving force behind Prince is the standard CSS3-paged that integrates paged media (including PDF) layout specification with any other W3C technologies: HTML4, HTML5, XHTML, and "free XML", working or not with JavaScript.
Prince has good support for CSS (including CSS Flexible Box Model, from Prince 12) with proprietary extensions for print-related functionality not currently in the CSS standard (for example, footnote policies, specifying the size of the bleed area of the page when crop marks are enabled, creating running page headers and footers and similar).
Prince supports most of ECMAScript 5th edition, but not strict mode. Later editions of ECMAScript are not supported.


Tapete

Tapete, also known as Mark IV cassette, was an audio cassette format designed for audiobooks developed for the Royal National Institute for the Blind. It was developed by the firm of Clarke & Smith Industries of Wallington, Hampshire, and could store over twelve hours of speech yet was compact enough to be sent in the post. It also featured a spoken index track, allowing for rewind and fast forward by section for blind users.
The Tapete was developed for the Mark IV playback system, which was a refined version of the earlier "Mark I" system introduced by the RNIB in 1959. Prior to introduction of the Mark IV system, cassettes were mailed to 22,000 subscribers.
The format was in "large-scale use" by the RNIB by mid-1969. It was mainly used in Great Britain and a few other Commonwealth countries, with other markets such as the United States and most other European countries opting to maintain disc-based systems for audiobooks. The only other Western European countries to adopt the system were Switzerland, Spain and Finland.
Clarke & Smith as a company became increasingly reliant on the RNIB contract by the mid-1970s. As early as the 1980s, the RNIB investigated newer, digital formats, and in the later part of the decade it commissioned another company to reverse engineer the format. The RNIB began preparing its transition to the Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) in the late 1990s, pulling its contract at the same time that Frank Clarke, the company's founder, unexpectedly died.


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Made / Nous

Made | Nous is a promotional campaign focused on the Canadian entertainment and media industry and Canadian content, with the goal of promoting Canadian creators in film, television, video games, and digital entertainment.
History.
2019.
Created in collaboration with the Canada Media Fund, Telefilm Canada and other industry partners, the Made | Nous campaign was launched in a 60-second ad broadcast during the 2019 Academy Awards ceremony on February 24, 2019. The campaign was then officially launched on February 25, 2019, with 30-second ads airing that day.
As part of the launch, the Made | Nous logo was added to transit posters and social media graphics for the films Deadpool and Arrival, and the TV ads were voiced by Canadian actor Christopher Plummer in English and Karine Vanasse in French.
2020.
In April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Made | Nous campaign launched a Canada-wide virtual road trip, with Canadian comedian Jay Baruchel and actor Marc-Andre Grondin tweeting a recommended Canadian TV show or movie every day that month.
In May 2020, actors Simu Liu and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan became ambassadors for Made | Nous, working with the campaign to highlight notable Asian Canadians as part of Asian and South Asian Heritage month.
Between May and July, Quebec talent Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Debbie Lynch-White, the animation duo Bianca Gervais and Sébastien Diaz, and Jean-Sébastien Girard collaborated with Made | Nous to present four Facebook trivia nights focused on Quebec television and cinema, with a different host presenting each week.
Every day in June 2020, Made | Nous posted historical and groundbreaking moments of love from Canadian LGBTQ2S+ film and television, culminating in a video compilation called "30 Ways to Say I Love You" that was broadcast during Toronto's virtual Pride parade.
To celebrate National Indigenous History Month and National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21, Made | Nous ambassador Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs used her Instagram channel to highlight Indigenous creators and the challenges the community faces in the entertainment industry.
With Canadian actor and host Tanner Zipchen, the campaign also launched a Summer Blockbuster Drive-In Series in July 2020, which celebrated Canadian contributions to blockbuster films by featuring those films at drive-in theatres across the country. Actor Will Arnett and filmmaker David Cronenberg filmed special introductions for the series.
2021.
In April 2021, Made | Nous launched #SeekMore, an incarnation of their campaign, during the final episode of Canadian television show "Kim's Convenience". Seek More is supported by Simu Liu, Shamier Anderson, Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, Mélissa Bédard, Adib Alkhalidey, Cynthia Wu-Maheux, Amanda Brugel, Hamza Haq, Kaniehtiio Horn, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, and Cassandra James.
The launch was promoted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to his 5.6 million Twitter followers.
With a focus on underrepresented and marginalized voices, the #SeekMore campaign encourages Canadians to "seek out people from a wide array of racial backgrounds and lived experiences in the entertainment world—the actors, filmmakers, writers, and other storytellers shaping television, film, and gaming in this country."
The campaign includes a website that recommends Canadian content to watch and where to find it online.


Steno-Cassette

The Steno-Cassette is an analog cassette format for dictation, introduced by Grundig in 1971. It gained widespread use in Germany, where it was established as a DIN standard (DIN 32750) in 1985. It is easily distinguished from other dictation cassette formats (such as the Microcassette) by the integrated tape counter index, showing the amount of tape available.


Hawker Britton

Hawker Britton is a lobbying and political consulting firm, headquartered in Australia. It is known to have influence with the Australian Labor Party.
It has the largest number of clients on the Australian Government Federal Lobbyist Register, and has multiple offices spread across Australia and New Zealand.
It is majority owned by WPP AUNZ, a marketing conglomerate headquartered in Australia, New Zealand, and South East Asia; itself a subsidiary of the WPP plc conglomerate.
Corporate History.
Hawker Britton was established in 1997 by Bruce Hawker and David Britton. Before starting the company, Bruce Hawker was Chief of Staff to New South Wales Premier Bob Carr, and Britton was Carr's senior media advisor.
The firm has provided political campaign consultancy services across many elections.
The founders have left the company. David Britton left in 2005 to work for the Fred Hollows Foundation. Bruce Hawker left in December 2010 to set up a new campaign-focused venture.
Contemporary management.
The current Managing Director is Justin Di Lollo, a former staffer to Labor leader Kim Beazley. Di Lollo also heads the STW Group government relations function.
Simon Banks is the company's Federal Director. Banks worked for three Federal Labor Leaders, including Kevin Rudd. He managed Labor's successful 2007 Federal election strategy. The Power Index ranked Banks the third most influential among all lobbyists in Canberra in November 2011.
The firm's website shows it employs many former Labor Party staffers, MPs and campaign professionals.
Clients.
In South Australia, Hawker Britton has represented the following clients: AARNet, Adelaide Airport Limited, AMP, APA Group, Australian Science Innovations, Bunnings, CHC, Engie, Expedia, Fantastic Holdings, Free TV, Heathgate Resources, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Liberty House Group, Lion, Lockheed Martin, Mayne Pharma, McDonald's, Medibank, Motorola, Officeworks, QBE, Quasar Resources, Red Bull, Science meets Parliament SA, SMS Management & Technology, Serco, Taxi Council SA and Yellow Edge.


Charlie the Unicorn

Charlie the Unicorn is a 2005 Flash animated comedy short film and viral video created by Jason Steele of independent film company FilmCow in Orlando, Florida. The short follows Charlie, a lethargic and pessimistic unicorn, who is taken by Lolz and Roffle, two blue and pink unicorns, on an adventure to the magical Candy Mountain. However, the journey turns out to be a farce, and Charlie has his kidney stolen by the other two unicorns.
Steele originally created the video as a birthday present for his mother; the video was partially credited to her and was released by her under the username "TypeQueen" on Newgrounds, where it rapidly increased in popularity. The video was later uploaded onto YouTube by Geoff Swanson, where it gained large viewership and continued to increase in popularity, leading to a series of sequels and spinoffs. A merchandising line was later produced, as well as three sequels and a parody series titled "Charlie teh Unicron". The first three episodes in the series were released to DVD in 2009 as part of "The FilmCow Master Collection".
Plot.
In a quiet meadow, Charlie, a unicorn, is resting, before he is awakened by two other blue and pink unicorns, Lolz and Roffle. As Charlie awakes from his slumber, the two inform him that they have found a map to the magical Candy Mountain, and that he must come with them on their journey. Charlie initially refuses and goes back to sleep. Roffle begins to jump on Charlie, insistent that he should come, and both begin to pester him with details of the mountain, causing him to begrudgingly give in to their demands.
The trio begin their journey in a forest, where Lolz and Roffle lead Charlie to a Magical Liopleurodon, who supposedly tells them the way with unintelligible gurgles. The trio then cross a bridge, while Lolz badgers Charlie by repeating his name and reminding him they are on a bridge. When the trio arrives at Candy Mountain, the letters of the CANDY sign come to life and the "Y" sings a song (sung to the tune of the Clarinet Polka) imploring Charlie to go into the Candy Cave. After the letters explode, Charlie reluctantly goes into the cave, and Lolz and Roffle say goodbye as Charlie is trapped inside and knocked out by an unknown assailant. When Charlie awakens in the meadow, he realizes that they have taken one of his kidneys, much to his dismay.
Production.
Independent animator Jason Steele of FilmCow conceived "Charlie the Unicorn" in 2005 as a gift for his mother's birthday, as she enjoyed unicorn-related conversation. Steele had lost his job and most of his possessions in the wake of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans. When he moved to Orlando, Steele claims he "was completely out of money, but still wanted to get [his mother] something" for her upcoming birthday. According to Steele: "Knowing this, she said that instead of a gift I could make a cartoon for her about unicorns. So I made 'Charlie the Unicorn'. More than ten years later she still brings up the fact that her birthday present launched my career."
Steele imagined the first aspects of video's plotline when he was running around his house chanting "La la la!" repeatedly, then quickly envisioned the rest of the plotline shortly thereafter. According to Steele, the video's conception happened "all at once; there was no editing." The video is primarily structured around surrealist humor and dark humor. Steele claims that the dark humor was inspired by musician Logan Whitehurst, of whom Steele was a fan and who composed the theme song for Steele's 2003 computer-animated short film "Secret Agent Bob". Steele also describes the surreal humor as "contrast[ing] to how bright and cheerful" the video's atmosphere is.
Steele drew "Charlie the Unicorn" using Adobe Photoshop, animated it in Adobe Flash, and edited it in Final Cut Pro. The audio was recorded using Amadeus II, and the music was recorded with GarageBand. The video also contains a musical number titled "The Candy Mountain Cave", featured during the sequence where Charlie refuses to enter the Candy Mountain Candy Cave, sung by the mountain's marquee letter "Y". Although Lolz and Roffle were originally intended to sing the song, Steele found it difficult to sing in their voices at a rapid pace, and resorted to using the Letter "Y" instead.
Reception.
"Charlie the Unicorn" has become increasingly popular since its inception. Following its posting on Newgrounds in 2005, Geoff Swanson of YouTube posted a copy of the video on the website in 2006, where it rapidly gained popularity. It reached a total of approximately 8 million views Internetwide in 2007. The video had climbed to 46 million views by March 2010. It currently has 68 million views on Geoff Swanson's YouTube upload, and 37 million views on FilmCow's official YouTube upload.
Online magazine "Salon" described the video as "The unlikely adventure of a crotchety unicorn" and stated "We often feel like Charlie the Unicorn. Annoying, brightly colored colleagues poke at us with their curly horns as we snooze at our desk, promising far-off, sugar-coated delights. Do we muster the energy to follow them, hoping some sweet payoff will break the unbearable bleakness of our daily existence? Can they be trusted?" The series has also attracted a number of celebrities, including British television personality Alex Zane, and American entertainers Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn. Brian Hamlin of "The Hollywood Reporter" considered the video to be "incredibly dumb and annoying" yet "really funny and weird too full of unicorn joyness and music." In 2010, Dan Fletcher of "Time" magazine named "Charlie the Unicorn" number 49 in their list of "YouTube's 50 Best Videos", stating ""Charlie the Unicorn" proves that something doesn't have to make any sense at all to earn a cultlike following."
Sequels, spinoffs, and parodies.
Five sequels have been released: "Charlie the Unicorn 2" (2008), "Charlie the Unicorn 3" (2009), "Charlie the Unicorn 4" (2012), "Charlie the Unicorn: The Grand Finale (Part One)" (2019), and "Charlie the Unicorn: The Grand Finale (Part Two)" (2020), each of which continue the theme of Charlie going on adventures with Lolz and Roffle and getting hoodwinked in the end. On February 23, 2016, FilmCow released a video titled "Charlie the Unicorn: The Grand Finale Kickstarter" in which it was announced that there was a thirty-minute finale planned; the Kickstarter raised $209,247 in funds. Steele released the first part of "The Grand Finale" on YouTube on October 10, 2019, expecting to follow it up with five more parts. The second part was released on June 15, 2020.
On November 22, 2008, as a feature of the YouTube Live streamed event, the cast of "Charlie the Unicorn" were featured in a short film directed by creator Jason Steele featuring YouTube Live colliding with real life, causing several various memes to come to life, namely Rick Astley making a comeback and the world's weather conditions being altered in favor of raining chocolate. The short sequence was promoted with a forty-three-second video depicting Charlie and the two unicorns attempting to defuse a bomb before being attacked by a large group of seagulls; the short had no connection whatsoever to the video it was promoting other than advertising purposes. The video "Charlie the Unicorn at Playlist Live" was released on March 28, 2013 to promote the Playlist Live conference; the video involved the three unicorns meeting YouTube celebrities at Playlist Live.
On March 1, 2009, creator Jason Steele released a video to accompany Hot Topic's "Charlie the Unicorn" merchandising line titled "Charlie the Unicorn and the Tomb of Horrors". The video follows Charlie and the two unicorns scaling an ancient chamber inhabited by "The Weasel", a shamanist weasel who has attempted to call upon forces of evil that laid waste to the world ten thousand years prior.
Steele also produced a four-short parody series titled "Charlie teh Unicron". Steele says it is based around "what the "Charlie the Unicorn" series would be like if it was written by random internet people." Another parody, "Charlie the Yannicorn" was made in 2013. That same year, during the "Detective Heart of America: The Final Freedom" Kickstarter, another parody "Charlie the Unitective Heart of America" was released, featuring Heart of America as Charlie. Although not released on FilmCow's main channel, it can be found on a playlist.
Multiple livestreams featuring Charlie communicating with viewers were conducted on the FilmCow YouTube channel, as part of a promotion for the series' "Grand Finale" Kickstarter in 2016. However, only "Charlie the Unicorn's LIVE Oscars Spectacular!" — a stream which ran at the same time as the 88th Academy Awards — has been made publicly available (though unlisted) since the original streams were conducted.
Merchandise.
Merchandising lines produced by a partnership consisting of FilmCow and retailer CafePress as well as Hot Topic have been launched in response to the video's popularity. The merchandise features various quotes from the video's characters, and is sold in several forms including t-shirts, pins, coffee mugs, and bandannas.
A game titled "Charlie the Unicorn Dating Simulator" and a storybook titled "Charlie the Unicorn: Lost in Dreamspace" were released by Steele in 2016. According to Steele, the storybook is "an illustrated side-adventure that takes place a little while after the end of "Charlie the Unicorn 2"."
In other media.
The cast of "Charlie the Unicorn" also appeared on May 23, 2008, in the music video for Weezer's single "Pork and Beans". The music video was directed by Mathew Cullen of the video production company Motion Theory and features many Internet phenomena, including Charlie, Lolz, and Roffle. The character of Charlie first appears in a sequence parodying the "G.I. Joe" public service announcements starring animated versions of the band as children, where the character Gung-Ho of the G.I. Joe franchise appears as their mentor and has a tattoo of Charlie on his chest. All three unicorns appear at the end alongside the band and various other Internet memes.


Adrian Scott

Robert Adrian Scott (February 6, 1911 – December 25, 1972) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He was one of the Hollywood Ten and later blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses.
Life and career.
Early life.
Scott was born in Arlington, New Jersey, the son of successful Irish Catholic parents — his father worked in middle management for the New York Telephone Company. Arlington was one of the centers of the American textile industry, a key site in the history of industrial capitalism and a hotbed of radical labor agitation. Arlington is 12 miles south of Paterson, where the 1913 strike of 25,000 silk workers brought together socialists, Wobblies, and Greenwich Village intellectuals. In 1926, when Scott was 15, 20,000 textile workers in nearby Passaic, New Jersey, closed down the mills.
Scott's older brother Allan was a playwright (and later screenwriter), whose comedy "Goodbye Again" ran on Broadway for most of 1933.
Adrian's college yearbook in Amherst College described him: "Hat cocked back at a rakish angle, cigar in the corner of his mouth, his fingers playing nimbly over the typewriter keys, the inimitable R.A.L. Scott."
Scott graduated from Amherst in 1934. He was a film critic and associate editor of "Stage" magazine from 1936 through 1938. He moved to Hollywood, California, in 1939.
Screenwriter.
Scott broke into Hollywood as a screenwriter. He worked on the script for "Keeping Company" (1940) at MGM, "We Go Fast" (1941) at 20th Century Fox, and "The Parson of Panamint" (1941) at Paramount. Scott wrote "Mr. Lucky" (1943) at RKO, which was a hit.
Producer.
RKO signed Scott to work as a producer. His first credit in that capacity was "My Pal Wolf" (1944). He went on to produce "Murder, My Sweet" (1944), an adaption of "Farewell My Lovely" by Raymond Chandler by John Paxton that was directed by Edward Dmytryk. It was a critical and commercial success. The cast included Dick Powell, who revitalized his career in the role of Philip Marlowe, and Anne Shirley, whom Scott married.
Scott, Dmytryk, Powell, and Paxton reunited on "Cornered" (1945). Scott then produced "Deadline at Dawn" (1946), the only feature film directed by Harold Clurman. Dmytryk, Paxton, and he reunited on "So Well Remembered" (1947) shot in England. More successful was "Crossfire" (1947), another collaboration among the three men. "Crossfire" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and was a popular success.
Scott produced "The Boy with Green Hair" (1948), directed by Joseph Losey, which was a box-office flop. He is credited on the script for "Miss Susie Slagle's" (1946) at Paramount.
Blacklisting.
Scott joined the Communist Party USA in 1944. In October 1947, Scott was called to testify during the House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings on Hollywood, but as did nine others, refused to testify. RKO fired him on October 29, 1947, for refusing to answer questions.
For the first year of the blacklist, he returned to journalism, contributing to the London journal "Cine-Technician". He was sentenced to prison along with the other members of the Hollywood Ten. Edward Dmytryk, another of the Hollywood Ten, chose to become a 'friendly' witness and testified before the HUAC in 1951 that Scott pressured him to put communist propaganda in his films.
In 1955, Scott published an essay titled "Blacklist: The Liberal's Straightjacket and Its Effect on Content" in "Hollywood Review".
From 1954 to 1961, Scott made a living writing for television. These shows included "The Adventures of Robin Hood" and "The Adventures of Sir Lancelot". He provided the story for "Conspiracy of Hearts" (1960) under a pseudonym.
He moved to England in 1961.
In 1963, MGM-British hired Scott as a production executive, effectively ending his blacklisting.
Later career.
Scott attempted to make a return to feature-film production in 1967 by producing a new adaption of "Monsieur Lecoq"; the film was never finished. Film stills featuring the movie's actress Julie Newmar were featured in the September 1969 edition of "Playboy".
Shortly before his death, Scott made a television adaption of "The Great Man's Whiskers" and was credited with his legal name.
Personal life.
Scott was married to actress Anne Shirley, who subsequently married another screenwriter, Charles Lederer, nephew of Marion Davies. He later married Joan Scott (née LaCour), fellow screenwriter and producer. Joan sometimes served as Adrian's front when he was unable to publish under his own name, and later the surname LaCour was used by both when writing in Hollywood.
Adrian was the brother of screenwriter Allan Scott, who is the father of actress Pippa Scott.
Adrian Scott died from lung cancer in 1972 in Sherman Oaks, California.
Papers.
Joan and Adrian Scott's papers can be found at the American Heritage Center in Laramie, Wyoming.


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Amandine du 38

Amandine du 38, or Miss Amanda, is a French amateur singer, whose rap videos went viral in January 2009. She then decided to stop uploading videos and quit studying because of the heavy harassment, but changed her mind in March 2010 and tried to release a crowdfunded album under the name Miss Sing.
The buzz.
In December 2008, Amandine du 38, 18 years old, uploaded a rap video online called "École au Sénégal" (school in Senegal), dealing with the poverty in Senegal. Using the artist name Miss Amanda, she wanted to show what she is able to do and get tips to improve. However, her amateurish rap, slaughtering the French language, is noticed by the radio show "" from NRJ and goes viral in January 2009, under the name "Amandine du 38" that she never chose. She then becomes victim of harassment (teasing, insults, death threats, suicide rumors) whether at school, on the Internet or at her home.
 Many videos are published online to clash her, urged by French radio stations such as NRJ, or the regional radio RMG 38. Although her school and her parents advises her to stop sharing videos, especially since her sister and brother are also being harassed at school, she keeps on uploading new songs as well as clash videos to answer her harassers. A few months later, as she's fed up of being asked to rap between classes, she finally gives up making videos for a few months and drops out of school.
in 2014 she has also collaborated with SILLAZ on the single swag attitude, sillaz helped her to become less ridiculous and tried to bring back her career where she left it in 2010
Attempt to release an album.
In March 2010, Amandine du 38 comes back with new songs under the name "Miss Sing". She tries to release an album in the crowdfunding record label MyMajorCompany, but fails to reach the required amount. She is still being harassed online, as many of her online accounts are hacked, but states that she doesn't really know if she regrets publishing her first video and wants to buzz again to be happy. She resumes her studies in October 2014.
Posterity.
Amandine du 38 is still mentioned in 2021 as an example of ridiculous rap and quick virtual notoriety despite lacking any musical talent.


Fay Kanin

Fay Kanin (née Mitchell; May 9, 1917March 27, 2013) was an American screenwriter, playwright and producer. Kanin was President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1979 to 1983.
Biography.
Born Fay Mitchell in New York City to David and Bessie (née Kaiser) Mitchell, she was raised in Elmira, New York, where she won the New York State Spelling Championship at twelve and was presented with a silver cup by then Governor Franklin Roosevelt. She was encouraged to write for money by supplying small items to the "Elmira Star Gazette". She was Jewish.
In high school she wrote and produced a children's radio show; then on full scholarship, she attended the private, all-female Elmira College where she divided her studies between writing and acting as well as editing the yearbook. Fay's mother took her daughter to visit her grandmother in the Bronx, and it was there that she became devoted to the theater when she saw a matinée of "Idiot's Delight" starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
Hollywood.
Kanin longed to move to Los Angeles to get into pictures and her parents indulged her. Her father moved to California first to secure a job, then she and her mother packed everything and followed by train. Kanin spent her senior year at the University of Southern California where she became active in college radio. After graduating with a bachelor's degree, she wangled an interview with Sam Marx who thought she was much too young to hire; but her next interview was with story editor Bob Sparks at RKO who sent her to producer Al Lewis, who then hired her as a story editor at $75 a week. RKO released Lewis, but Sparks kept Fay on as scriptreader to write one-page summaries for $25 a week. Kanin proceeded to teach herself everything she could about the movie industry at RKO's expense. During the lunch hour, she talked to anyone she happened to find – whether they were art directors, editors, or cinematographers.
Michael Kanin.
There was a small theater at the studio where contract players put on plays. While Kanin was acting in Irwin Shaw's "Bury the Dead", she came to the attention of Michael Kanin, who had just been hired as a writer in the B unit. Michael was trained as an artist and had turned to commercial art and painting scenery for burlesque houses to help support his parents during the Depression. They were introduced by a mutual friend, and Michael practically asked Kanin to marry him right then and there, but it took her a little while to come around to the idea.
The Kanins rented a house in Malibu for their honeymoon, and after buying an A. J. Liebling "New Yorker" short story about a boarding house for boxers, they spent the next six months writing the adaptation, "Sunday Punch" (1942). They knew they were on the track to a partnership when MGM bought the screenplay. "We would make a story outline together with rather detailed descriptions of the scenes. Then we divided up the writing, each taking the scenes we felt strongly about. Then one or the other of us would put it all together into a single draft. We did find a common voice, though we had different strengths. As an artist, Michael brought a great visual sense to the process. I was a people person who loved the characters and the dialogue. Through the collaboration, we learned a lot from each other and about each other. But the time came when I felt as if we were together 48 hours a day. Writing with someone else always requires some degree of compromise, as does marriage. When it came down to the question of which would survive, the marriage or the writing partnership, it was a pretty easy decision. But I remember that it was a challenge convincing the powers that be that we had been successful writers individually and would be again. We were hyphenated in people's minds: Fay-and-Michael Kanin. To again become Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin took some doing."
Michael took a job working with Ring Lardner Jr. to work on the Tracy / Hepburn project "Woman of the Year" (1942), based on an original story by his brother Garson Kanin. Fay and Michael Kanin wrote a play, "Goodbye My Fancy", (originally titled "Most Likely to Succeed") about a female congressional representative renewing past loves. Countering existing gender roles, the play made a bold statement about women and their place outside the home. The play was a Broadway smash and starred Madeleine Carroll, Conrad Nagel, and Shirley Booth, and was eventually filmed by Vincent Sherman in 1951 with Joan Crawford and Robert Young.
During World War II, Kanin came up with an idea to promote women's participation in the war effort, and presented the idea for "A Woman's Angle" radio show to the heads of NBC Radio for which Kanin would write the scripts and do the network commentary. Along those lines, she contributed to the story "Blondie For Victory", one of the low-budget series based on the popular comic strip, where Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform homefront wartime duties much to the dismay of Dagwood. Kanin even made an appearance as an actor in "A Double Life" (1947), co-written by her brother-in-law Garson Kanin and his wife, actress Ruth Gordon.
"Teacher's Pet".
The Kanins wrote "My Pal Gus" (1952) in which Richard Widmark becomes a good father and falls in love with Joanne Dru, the Elizabeth Taylor film "Rhapsody" (1954) and "The Opposite Sex" (1956), a musical remake of "The Women". But it was the Oscar-nominated script for "Teacher's Pet" (1958) for which they are best remembered, a film about a self-made newspaper editor Clark Gable who has a love-hate relationship with journalism teacher Doris Day. The film almost did not get made since the Kanins were not under any studio contract, and having shopped the script around without attracting any interest, it was only after a rewrite inspired by Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday" that producer Bill Perlberg and director George Seaton purchased it.
Blacklist.
It was while the couple were on holiday in Europe that the Kanins learned they had been blacklisted by the HUAC.
"What they had against us was that I had taken classes at the Actors Lab in Hollywood where some of the teachers were from the Group Theater and therefore suspect, and we had been members of the Hollywood Writers Mobilization, an organization in support of World War II to which almost all of Hollywood's writers belonged. It was ridiculous, but it was very real, and there was nothing we could do about it. We took a larger mortgage on the house and started writing a play, but we didn't work in films for almost two years."
They were unable to find work again until director Charles Vidor insisted that MGM hire the couple for "Rhapsody" in 1953.
"Rashomon".
In 1959 the couple adapted Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" for the Broadway play of the same name; with a further adaptation for the screen, in Martin Ritts "The Outrage".
Television.
In the early 1970s, Kanin began solo writing in earnest with "Heat of Anger", about a strong, older woman lawyer played by Susan Hayward, and a younger male lawyer. At first Kanin was put off by the lack of an immediate reaction from an audience, but once she realized that more people had seen it in one night than would have ever seen it in theaters if it played for a year, she was hooked and wrote five more films for television.
"Tell Me Where it Hurts" started from a small newspaper article about a group of women in Queens who got together to just talk. The film starred Maureen Stapleton and won two Emmys. The following year, she wrote and co-produced "Hustling" based on Gail Sheehy's non-fiction book. The film was about a prostitute recounting her life to a reporter, and starred Jill Clayburgh and Lee Remick, respectively. For weeks, Kanin interviewed working girls at the Midtown North police station, and after the film aired, she received letters complimenting her on how fairly she had treated them.
The television movie "Friendly Fire" was seen by an estimated sixty million people in 1979. Written and co-produced by Kanin, it starred Carol Burnett as a mother who challenges the military's "official story" of how her son died in Vietnam. The non-fiction book by C. D. B. Bryan was about the Mullen family and their discovery that their son had been accidentally killed by American troops. Kanin spent five months secluded with Bryan's research tapes adapting the book, and "Friendly Fire" won the Emmy for Best Outstanding Drama that year.
In 1978, Kanin and the producer of "Hustling", Lillian Gallo, partnered to form a joint production company, becoming one of the first female production teams in Hollywood. Together, their company produced "Fun and Games" for Valerie Harper, a tale of sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the workplace. For Norman Lear, Kanin wrote "Heartsounds", which starred Mary Tyler Moore and James Garner as a couple coping with heart disease.
"Grind".
In 1975, Universal Studio producers asked Kanin for a screenplay about a bi-racial burlesque theater in 1933 Chicago. Nothing came of it, but in 1985 Kanin adapted her unproduced screenplay for the stage. The result was "Grind". Directed by Hal Prince with choreography by Lester Wilson, the cast included Ben Vereen as a song-and-dance man, Stubby Kaye as a slapstick comic, and Leilani Jones as a stripper named Satin. The production was a disaster; the show lost its entire $4.75 million investment, and Prince and three other members of the creative team were suspended by the Dramatists Guild of America for signing a "substandard" contract.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Kanin was elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1979, and served four terms until 1983. She was its second female president, following in the footsteps of earlier president Bette Davis, who left after only one month. She has also served as the president of the Screen Branch of the Writers Guild of America and as Chair of the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress, an officer of the Writers Guild Foundation, a member of the Board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Film Institute.
Fay Kanin was the vice president of the Academy's 1999–2000 Board of Trustees, and a member of the steering committee of the Caucus for Producers, Writers and Directors, which formed in 1974, and of the National Film Preservation Board in Washington, D.C. She served on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors from 2007–08.
National Student Film Institute.
During the 1980s and 1990s Kanin served on the advisory board of the National Student Film Institute.


Ed Valenti

Ed Valenti is an American television personality and entrepreneur best known as an early pioneer of infomercials and for creating the Ginsu knives. In 1975, Valenti and his business partner Barry Becher founded Dial Media, Inc. (now PriMedia Inc), one of the first major infomercial companies in the world. Valenti is credited with coining a number of phrases widely adopted by the industry, including: “But wait, there’s more!”, “Now how much would you pay?” and “This is a limited-time offer, so call now.”
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Big Ideas for a Small Planet

Big Ideas for a Small Planet is an American documentary series on the Sundance Channel which focuses on environmental innovations such as alternative fuel and green building techniques. The series premiered on the iTunes Store prior to its release on the Sundance Channel on April 17, 2007. The television series is part of The Green, a block of programming on the Sundance Channel focusing on the environment.


Guardian Australia

Guardian Australia is the Australian website of the British global online and print newspaper, "The Guardian".
Available solely in an online format, the newspaper's launch was led by Katharine Viner in time for the 2013 Australian federal election and followed the introduction of "Guardian US" in 2011. "Guardian Australia" is owned by Guardian Media Group, which is in turn owned by The Scott Trust, which aims to stay independent and free from 'commercial pressures'. The online publication relies on digital advertising and voluntary reader donations or subscriptions for revenue, eschewing enforced paywalls implemented by other news websites.
"Guardian Australia"'s headquarters is based in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, with bureaux in Brisbane, Melbourne and Canberra. It employs over 80 journalists, editors and other personnel as of 2018, including editor-in-chief Lenore Taylor who assumed responsibilities in 2016.
History.
Prior to its 2013 launch the British edition of the website was already popular with Australian audiences, with over 1.3 million users per month helping it rank just outside the top 10 most-visited news websites in Australia. "Guardian Australia" has subsequently become one of the top 5 most visited news websites in the country.
Following an investment from businessman Graeme Wood, prompted by Malcolm Turnbull, "Guardian Australia" was launched on 27 May 2013 in the lead-up to the 2013 federal election. The British team was joined by local journalists, some of whom previously worked at News Corp Australia and Fairfax Media, including Lenore Taylor, Katherine Murphy and David Marr.
"The Guardian Australia" has a Comment is Free section edited by Gabrielle Jackson, featuring opinion pieces from regular writers, politicians, other public figures and members of the public.
In 2016, it was announced that the then political editor Lenore Taylor would take over the editorship following the end of Emily Wilson's tenure.
In May 2017, as part of a confidential legal settlement, "Guardian Australia" issued an apology to Noel Pearson over a story they published in January 2017, which made defamatory claims. The newspaper said it "accepts that the comments regarding Mr Noel Pearson in that article were false, [...] unreservedly retracts the statements made in the article regarding Mr Noel Pearson and apologises for the harm and distress caused to him."
"Guardian Australia" turned its first profit after five years of operations with a balance of $700,000 in financial year 2017-2018. Previously, the online publication posted a loss of 7.5 million against a revenue of 3.79 million in 2013–2014, a loss of 6 million in 2014-2015 and a loss of 14 million in 2015–2016.
Ownership.
"The Guardian Australia" is owned by Guardian News and Media (GNM). GNM is owned by Guardian Media Group (GMG), which is in turn owned by the Scott Trust Limited, a limited company which aims to ensure the editorial independence of its publications and websites.


Jal (film)

Jal () is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language drama film set in the Rann of Kutch, India, and follows an overconfident water diviner Bakka who tries to solve the drought problems in his village, but faces unforeseen circumstances when he tries to help a female bird watcher save flamingos. The film is directed by Girish Malik and is his debut film as a director.
The film was premiered and received special mention at the "New Currents" section of the Busan International Film Festival 2013 and in the "Indian Panorama" section of the International Film Festival of India.
The film released in India on 4 April 2014. One World Films has collaborated with DAR Motion Pictures for the distribution of "Jal" in India. The film has received the National Film Award for Best Special Effects for the year 2013 at the 61st National Film Awards.
"Jal" was also short-listed as an Oscars 2014 contender in the Best Picture Category and the Best Original Score Category. The film advanced in the top 114 films in the Best Original Score Category.
Synopsis.
"Jal" revolves around a young man named Bakka (Purab Kohli), who is gifted with a special ability to find water in the desert. With the backdrop of water scarcity, the film tells a complex story of love, relationships, enmity, deceit and circumstances that bring about the dark side of human character.
Music.
The music of the film is composed by Sonu Nigam and ace tabla player/percussionist Bickram Ghosh. This is their first composing collaboration for a Bollywood film.
The composer duo recorded the film's title song with Shubha Mudgal. The title song used ragas like Marwa and Puriya combined with rare musical instruments like the Armenian Duduk. The entire song was created in a day.
"Jal"'s background score is by Sonu Nigam and Bickram Ghosh. They used a mix of Indian and International sounds with a lot of percussion. Sonu Nigam and Bickram Ghosh were nominated in Oscars 2014 long list among top 114 in the Best Original Score Category.
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Jan Marsalek

Jan Marsalek (also Maršálek, born 15 March 1980 in Vienna) is an Austrian alleged white-collar criminal and former manager, known for his position as board member and chief operating officer of the German payment processing firm Wirecard. He has been a fugitive since June 2020 because of his role in the Wirecard scandal.
Biography.
Marsalek attended various schools in Austria, but did not obtain a degree. At the age of 19, he founded an e-commerce software company.
He started working for Wirecard in 2000 and was initially hired for his knowledge on WAP systems. On 1 February 2010, he became the firm's chief operating officer and also joined the company board.
His last known residence was in Munich.
Accusations.
Marsalek is considered one of the main culprits in the Wirecard accounting scandal. The Financial Times reported that Marsalek is a person of interest for a number of European governments due to his alleged links to Russian intelligence. Investigation by Bellingcat, Der Spiegel, and Insider indicated that Marsalek flew to Minsk hours after he was fired. On 19 July 2020, the German Handelsblatt reported that Marsalek was suspected to be in Russia, where he was suspected to live under supervision of the GRU in a mansion near Moscow.
During August 2020, the Interpol issued a Red notice for Marsalek, which is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and arrest him, pending extradition.


Peter de Putron

Peter Nicholas de Putron (born October 15th 1963) is the chief executive officer of Bell Rock Capital Management LLP.
De Putron is resident in Jersey and is the brother-in-law of Andrea Leadsom, the British Conservative Party member of Parliament and financial services minister who was briefly a contender for the position of leader of the Conservative party and hence Prime Minister in July 2016. He has been a Conservative Party donor. His wife, Carolynne Hayley de Putron, is head of investor relations at De Putron Fund Management for which Andrea Leadsom also worked in the 1990s. De Putron was one of those mentioned in the "Jersey files" which were leaked from Kleinwort Benson to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.


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Frequency assignment

Frequency assignment is the authorization of use of a particular radio frequency.
In Article 1.18 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Radio Regulations (RR), the process is defined as "Authorization given by a frequency administration for a radio station to use a radio frequency or radio frequency channel under specified conditions"».
Daily impact.
Every day, users rely on assignment of frequencies for efficient use of such devices as:
"Frequency assignment" is also a special term, used by national frequency administrations. For other terms see table below.