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Dorothy C. Fontana
Dorothy Catherine Fontana (March 25, 1939 – December 2, 2019) was an American television script writer and story editor, best known for her work on the original ''Star Trek'' franchise and several Western television series. After a short period working for Samuel A. Peeples as a secretary, Fontana moved to work for Del Reisman, a producer on '' The Lieutenant'', whose creator was Gene Roddenberry. Though ''The Lieutenant'' was soon cancelled, Roddenberry began working on ''Star Trek'', and Fontana was appointed as the series' story editor, but left after the second season to pursue freelance work. She later worked with Roddenberry again on '' Genesis II'' and then as story editor and associate producer on ''Star Trek: The Animated Series''. During the 1970s and early 1980s, she worked on ''Logan's Run'', '' The Fantastic Journey'', '' The Six Million Dollar Man'', and '' Buck Rogers in the 25th Century''. Roddenberry hired Fontana to work on '' Star Trek: The Next Genera ...
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Sussex, New Jersey
Sussex is a borough in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 2,024, an increase of 94 from the 2010 census count of 2,130,DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 for Sussex borough, Sussex County, New Jersey
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Deep Space Nine
''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (abbreviated as ''DS9'') is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller. The fourth series in the ''Star Trek'' media franchise, it originally aired in syndication from January 3, 1993, to June 2, 1999, spanning 176 episodes over seven seasons. Set in the 24th century, when Earth is part of a United Federation of Planets, its narrative is centered on the eponymous space station Deep Space Nine, located adjacent to a wormhole connecting Federation territory to the Gamma Quadrant on the far side of the Milky Way galaxy. Following the success of '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', Paramount Pictures commissioned a new series set in the ''Star Trek'' fictional universe. In creating ''Deep Space Nine'', Berman and Piller drew upon plot elements introduced in ''The Next Generation'', namely the conflict between two alien species, the Cardassians and the Bajorans. ''Deep Space Nine'' was the first ''Star ...
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre Setting (narrative), set in the American frontier and commonly associated with Americana (culture), folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. It is commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West" and depicted in Western media as a hostile, sparsely populated frontier in a state of near-total lawlessness patrolled by outlaws, sheriffs, and numerous other Stock character, stock "gunslinger" characters. Western narratives often concern the gradual attempts to tame the crime-ridden American West using wider themes of justice, freedom, rugged individualism, Manifest Destiny, and the national history and identity of the United States. History The first films that belong to the Western genre are a series of short single reel silents made in 1894 by Edison Studios at their Edison's Black Maria, Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. These featured vet ...
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Universal Television
Universal Television LLC (abbreviated as UTV) is an American television production company that is a subsidiary of Universal Studio Group, a division of Comcast's NBCUniversal. It serves as the network television production arm of NBC; a predecessor of the company previously assumed such functions, and a substantial portion of the company's shows air on the network. It was formerly known by various names, including Revue Studios, Universal Pictures Television Department, Universal-International Television, Studios USA Television LLC, Universal Network Television, Universal Domestic Television, NBC Universal Television Studio, and Universal Media Studios. Re-established in 2004, both NBC Studios and the original Universal Television are predecessors of the current Universal Television, formerly known as NBC Universal Television Studio and Universal Media Studios. Universal Television Alternative Studio Universal Television Alternative Studio ("Universal Television Alternative" acco ...
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Secretarial Pool
A secretarial pool or typing pool is a group of secretaries working at a company available to assist any executive without a permanently assigned secretary. These groups have been reduced or eliminated where executives have been assigned responsibility for writing their own letters and other secretarial work. After the widespread adoption of the typewriter but before the photocopier and personal computer, pools of typists were needed by large companies to produce documents from handwritten manuscripts, re-type documents that had been edited, type documents from audio recordings, or to type copies of documents. See also *Hot desking *Temporary work *Copy typist A copy typist is someone who specializes in typing text from a source which they read. Originally appeared as a skill in handling of typewriter, later it transitioned to using computer keyboard with results tracking on computer display and obtainin ... * Audio typist References"A Sea Change in the Secretarial Pool: Clerical ...
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Screen Gems
Screen Gems is an American brand name used by Sony Pictures' Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, a subsidiary of Japanese multinational conglomerate, Sony Group Corporation. It has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation, initially as a cartoon studio, then a television studio, and later on as a film studio. The label currently serves as a film production and distribution label that specializes in genre films, mainly horror. Animation studio: 1921–1946 Early years (1921–1933) When producer Pat Sullivan came to Harry Warner to sign a contract with him on his and Otto Messmer's series Felix the Cat, he declined and instead told his soon-to-be former secretary Margaret J. Winkler that she should form her own company and take control of the distribution of the series. Winkler formed M.J. Winkler Productions and soon also took control of Max and Dave Fleischer's series ''Out of the Inkwell''. By 19 ...
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Associate Degree
An associate degree is an undergraduate degree awarded after a course of post-secondary study lasting two to three years. It is a level of qualification above a high school diploma, GED, or matriculation, and below a bachelor's degree. The first associate degrees were awarded in the UK (where they are no longer awarded) in 1873 before spreading to the US in 1898. In the United States, the associate degree may allow transfer into the third year of a bachelor's degree. Associate degrees have since been introduced in a small number of other countries. Australia In 2004, Australia added "associate degree" to the Australian Qualifications Framework. This title was given to courses more academically focused than advanced diploma courses, and typically designed to articulate to bachelor's degree courses. Brazil In Brazil, undergraduate degrees are known as ('graduate') while graduate degrees are known as ('postgraduate'). Brazil follows the major traits of the continental Europea ...
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Ayers2006
Ayers may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * A.D. Ayers, American baseball umpire (National League) *Aaron Ayers (1836–1900), New Zealand auctioneer and politician * Bill Ayers (born 1944), American academic and activist *Bill Ayers (baseball) (1919–1980), American Major League Baseball pitcher *Bruce Ayers (born 1962), American small business owner and politician *Cameron Ayers (born 1991), American basketball player *Charlie Ayers (born 1966), former executive chef for Google * David Ayers (1841–1916), Union Army soldier during the American Civil War *Demarcus Ayers (born 1994), American football player *Dick Ayers (1924–2014), American comic book artist *Duffy Ayers (1915–2017), English portrait painter * Edward L. Ayers (born 1953), American historian, president of the University of Richmond *Eli Ayers (1778–1822), first colonial agent of the American Colonization Society *Fred Ayers (1912–1986), Australian rules footballer *Frederick Ayers, English engineer *Greg Ayers, A ...
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The Record (North Jersey)
''The Record'' (also called ''The North Jersey Record'', ''The Bergen Record'', ''The Sunday Record'' (Sunday edition) and formerly ''The Bergen Evening Record'') is a newspaper in New Jersey, United States. Serving Bergen, Essex, Hudson and Passaic counties in northern New Jersey, it has the second-largest circulation of the state's daily newspapers, behind ''The Star-Ledger''. ''The Record'' was under the ownership of the Borg family from 1930 to 2016, and the family went on to form North Jersey Media Group, which eventually bought its competitor, the ''Herald News''. Both papers are now owned by Gannett Company, which purchased the Borgs' media assets in July 2016. For years, ''The Record'' had its primary offices in Hackensack with a bureau in Wayne. Following the purchase of the competing ''Herald News'' of Passaic, both papers began centralizing operations in what is now Woodland Park, where ''The Record'' is currently based. History The newspaper was first publishe ...
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Passaic Valley Regional High School
Passaic Valley Regional High School is the name of both a public school district and regional high school for students in ninth through twelfth grades from a district comprising Little Falls, Totowa and Woodland Park, three communities in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,005 students and 86.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.7:1. There were 231 students (23.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 15 (1.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Passaic Valley Regional High School


Totowa, New Jersey
Totowa (pronounced "TO-tuh-wuh" ) is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States census, the borough's population was 10,844,DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 for Totowa borough, Passaic County, New Jersey
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American Screenwriters Association
The American Screenwriters Association (ASA) is a community of screenwriters and filmmakers, sharing their combined knowledge of screenwriting and the movie industry. Its primary mission is to help emerging screenwriters hone their screenwriting skills and market their screenplays They encourage dialogue between screenwriters, producers, filmmakers, actors, and industry. They promote and market their members’ screenplays, and develop relationships within the industry to increase member visibility. American Screenwriters Association was founded in 1996 by John E. Johnson in Cincinnati, OH. the organization in response to the void he perceived between emerging screenwriters and the industry. A short four years later, ASA had grown to 650+ members in 8 countries. John's career started while lunching with a friend in Wilmington, NC. John overheard an assistant producer discussing the need for more extras on a movie being filmed there, Simple Justice, starring Andre Braugher, Samuel ...
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