107.09 The
Berlin Wall - Road To
"Starmaker"
and
SantaTales."
In 1968, before Troy Cory teamed up with
famous German Orchestra leader, Ambros
Seelos in 1970, Troy had already
co-starred with Wendle Cory, Rolf Eden,
and Barabra Valentine in the Berlin AFI,
John Harris, movie production,
"Starmaker."
The
end of the 1970s found Troy Cory playing
Santa Claus in the German/American
production film "Merry Christmas: Just in
the Nick of Time," starring Priscilla
Cory, as "Little Miss Santa," and
featuring the late German singer, Manuela.
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107- Los Angeles Times Travel &
Adventure Show / February 13-14 / TVInews
Journalist Attending: Gary Sunking, Josie
Cory.
/
General
Info: The annual Los Angeles Times Travel
& Adventure Show will be held Saturday
& Sunday, February 13-14, 2010.
Los Angeles Convention
Center
1201 South Figueroa
Street
Los Angeles, CA
90015
Hours Public Hours &endash; 10am to 5pm,
Saturday and
Sunday
Travel Trade Hours &endash; 8am to 10am,
Saturday
only:.
General Admission:
$10
The box office on site will open at 9:30
A.M. each day. Or get $2 off by purchasing
in advance online! Purchase tickets in
advance.
Travel Agents and Children 16 and under
free (children must be accompanied by an
adult)
The Los Angeles Times Travel &
Adventure Show will take place at the Los
Angeles Convention Center in the WEST
HALL. CLICK
FOR MORE LA TIMES INFO.
Feature
Story /
102GoogleScanDealOrphanBooksGoogle vs Microsoft. Microsoft,
Yahoo and Amazon forms coalition to offset
Google Orphan Book
Settlement..
August 22, 2009 / Three powerful
technology companies have banded together
to oppose Google Inc.'s proposed
settlement with the Authors Guild and the
Assn. of American Publishers over the
Internet search giant's book scanning
project.
CLICK FOR MORE 02GoogleScanDealOrphanBooks
STORY
111s-TCScloseUp-TakeTwo.htm. A year
ago, I wrote a D-Diary memo identifying
long-term barriers to permanent
transformation of the Service Mark
Collections.
Since that time I've written a lot of
memos and direct story about the
transparent fraudulent activities created
by those certain rule makers over the
years in preparation for the collection of
moneies now all due and payable by Telco
organizations. To prevent Lawsuits, and
any misunderstanding between existing
Telcos, the Library of Congress, the
USPTO, FTC, and FCC, the new series of
TVInew aticles, "CloseUps," and Take2, was
prepared at the request of the WTQCA
association. That's something that never
would have happened before the
Monetary
Crash of 2008.
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Back then, in the pre-Obama era, I and my
many D-Diary memos would have been
summarily shredded. But under Pres. Obama,
not only is outside criticism invited, he
assigned himself as the chief salesman to
work through the issues. While the road to
permanent transformation stretches a long
way in front of us, there is a key reason
that we are on it at all.
Pres. Obama has been an extraordinary
leader who has recast the White House's
approach to governing. In my opinion, and
with a talented team, a determined federal
judge and an unusually capable congress,
Pres. Obama will accomplished a remarkable
turnaround of a government that had defied
all previous interventions to rein in its
both Pro and Con Hot Topic behavior. <111-
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But no president could completely alter
the DNA of the goodtime Charlie's of Wall
Street. Permanent reform will take much
longer, and it will happen only if the
president can continue to drive the
mandate down to the financial, foriegn
trade, and health industries, where there
are still holdouts itching to reverse
course.
Pres. Obama will leave behind a blueprint,
but in some ways the next president will
have a more difficult job. He or she will
need determination to make the changes
stick, a deep knowledge of th U.S.A.
culture, the ability to win the buy-in the
middle class consumer and the courage to
touch less on the problems created by
Unions and there issues.
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These must be the next chief's top
priorities:
Make Service Your First Priority,
Not Success and Success Will Follow
Your tviNew HotTopic list might
look like this:
1. Family
2. Meaningful work
3. Health and well-being
4. Financial freedom
5. Travel and adventure
Your list might look like
this:
Does your list indicate you're not
spending you time doing what you say is
most important to you?
Are you spending time accomplishing
other people's priorities, but not your
own?
Memorize your list of priorities,
and use it as a guideline for every demand
that is made on your time.
Don't let anything come between you
and what truly matters most to
you!
Focus on Innovation
Maximize Vendor Partnerships
Collaborate with Other Business
Leaders
Harness the value of TVInews
Services
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Ambros Seelos Orchestra Tours the
Globe
Ambros Seelos, and Troy Cory shown in
photo, colaborated on a host of original
songs recorded in Munich.
The
Ambros Seelos Orchestra featured
Sylvester Levay, Grammy winner for
"Fly Robin, Fly," who later had great
success with his musical "Elisabeth," and
was the co-writer with Troy, and Ambros on
Troy's BBC recordings, "Hurricane," "Hey,
Sweet Honey, Honey," and "Relax."
During the last two decades of Troy
Cory's China concert tours, Ambros Seelos
delivered the big-band background sound
for many of Troy's TV-stage performances,
"Jeepers Creepers" being a favorite
amongst the Chinese audiences.
Back in 1972 Ambros was chosen as the
official band for the Olympic Games in
Munich. Having toured the whole world, he
also performed together with giants of
Jazz like Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and
Ella Fitzgerald, Grammy-winning Hollywood
film composer and musical writer Sylvester
Levay ("Hot Shots," "Airwolf,"
"Elisabeth,") who also worked as a
producer for the living music legends
Elton John and Donna Summer. CLICK
FOR MORE Celebrity Scene's Ambros
STORY
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102.09FCCworkout'netneutrality'rules
/ Oct23,
2009.
During the NBS WiTEL press
conferance held at Hollywood Digital
confab on October 23, 2009,
FCC Chairman Julius
Genachowski won a victory on his first
major policy issue at the agency.
The Federal
Communications Commission announced
they would begin a data-gathering process.
Commissioners may consider whether
regulations should apply to not just
Internet access providers but also those
that feed content to the
Web.
The LA Times reported that,
with a unanimous
vote to move forward on a rule-making
process for how the government would
police access to the
Internet.
The chairman, picked by President Obama,
said, "The heart of the problem is that,
taken together, we face a dangerous
combination of an uncertain legal
framework with ongoing as well as emerging
challenges to a free and open Internet."
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FOR MORE STORY
102.09FCCworkout'netneutrality'rules /
Oct23, 2009.
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Copyrights
113.09iiNetNeutralityRule
/ September 21, 2009 / FCC Ensuring
Net neutrality. Julius Genachowski, the
new FCC chairman is right to want new
rules that would keep service providers
from limiting selected data traveling
through their networks.
The
FCC took a tentative stab at the issue in
2004, when then-Chairman Michael Powell
announced four crucial (4
Freebies) "Internet Freedoms":
the ability of Internet users to access
any legal content, software or services
online, and to connect to the Net through
any compatible device. Genachowski laid
out two more: Broadband providers
should not
discriminate against particular websites
or applications, nor conceal how they
manage data. He also said that the
commission should translate these
principles into formal rules rather than
leaving them in legal limbo. Lobbyists
for phone and cable TV companies argue
that there's little evidence of ISPs
playing unfairly or violating Powell's
four freedoms. Yet when the FCC moved to
stop Comcast from surreptitiously
interfering with a legal file-sharing
application last year, Comcast sued,
claiming the commission had no power to
enforce the principles. It's paradoxical
that the government should have to
regulate the Internet to preserve its
unregulated essence. But with so little
competition in broadband service, the
major phone and cable companies have the
power and the incentive to stop worthy but
disruptive innovations in the name of
"managing congestion." The FCC should set
clear rules that enable ISPs to keep data
flowing from all legal services and
applications, not just favored ones.
CLICK
FOR MORE STORY
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106
Bratz Dolls Wins Stay - Dec
10 MGA Entertainment Wins
Reprieve on Bratz Dolls Recall
(tviNewsUpdate: Mattel Inc. v. MGA
Entertainment, 09-55673, U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (San
Francisco)
Dec. 10, 2009 - Bloomberg
reported that MGA Entertainment Inc. won a
temporary halt to the court-ordered recall
of its Bratz dolls that were found to
infringe the copyrights of rival toymaker
Mattel Inc. and the companies must try to
reach a settlement.
"The parties are ordered to attempt
to settle the dispute through expedited
participation in this court's mediation
program," a three-judge panel of the U.S.
Court of Appeals said in an order
yesterday.
Former U.S. District Judge Stephen
Larson had ordered a recall of MGA's dolls
that was to go into effect next month.
Larson's order followed a jury verdict
last year that a Mattel designer created
the Bratz name and characters and secretly
took the idea to closely held MGA.
"The court's stay is good news for
all Bratz fans and for anyone who cares
about fair competition," MGA Chief
Executive Officer Isaac Larian said in a
statement. "It keeps Bratz on the shelves,
allows MGA Entertainment to continue
meeting consumer demand for new Bratz
products, and prevents Mattel from taking
control of the billion-dollar
international Bratz brand built by MGA
Entertainment while the court makes its
final decision."
Mattel, based in El Segundo,
California, is the world's biggest
toymaker. The introduction of MGA's
multiethnic Bratz dolls in 2001
contributed to a drop in Mattel's Barbie
sales. Larson last year issued an order
banning MGA from making and selling the
infringing dolls. The judge then put his
order on hold this year because he hadn't
ruled on post-trial motions.
"The court hasn't issued a decision
in the appeal," Mattel said in an e-mailed
statement. "It has issued an order staying
the equitable relief, and also ordering
expedited participation in the Circuit's
mediation program. Since the
appeal process is still pending, we cannot
comment further."
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FOR MORE Barbie
vs
Bratz
September 21, 2009 / MONDAY FREEBIES -
Google, Yahoo WiTEL vs AT&T, etc.
Internet 'net neutrality' is endorsed by
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski proposes
formalizing rules and adding mandates that
he says would keep online traffic moving
freely. The proposals would also cover
wireless Internet service.
AT&T,
the nation's largest land-line and
wireless carrier, complained that changing
government rules a year after wireless
companies spent billions of dollars in an
FCC auction to lease what they thought
were unencumbered public airwaves "creates
the impression of a 'bait and switch.'
" Genachowski
tried to allay some of those concerns. He
said the rules would be enforced case by
case. When networks are congested, for
example, telecommunications companies
might be allowed to limit use by "very
heavy users" so other customers would
still have access to the Internet.
Obama
was a strong supporter of network
neutrality during the presidential
campaign, helping to draw online
support.
The
FCC's four guiding Internet principles
since 2005 assure that Internet users can
access any legal content, application or
service and allow them to attach any
device to the Internet as long as it
doesn't harm the network.
CLICK
FOR MORE STORY
102.09iiiFCCRulesInternetNeutrality
AT&T
and Cable Telcos Rejects project
But
the telecommunications and the cable
companies that control both land-line and
wireless access to the Internet argue that
some customers who download large amounts
of data, such as a continuous flow of
movies, can jam their networks.
Regulations that prevent the companies
from restricting such bandwidth hogs, they
contend, would hamper their networks, harm
innovation and delay upgrades.
The
debate centers on so-called network
neutrality principles that the FCC has
been using for four years to prevent
telecom companies, such as AT&T Inc.
and Time Warner Cable Inc., from
restricting access to websites and other
online services.
Genachowski's
proposal would turn those principles into
permanent rules and expand them to prevent
discrimination against the type of data
flowing through the networks, such as free
Internet phone services or file-sharing
technology for movies.
And
for the first time, the regulations would
apply to wireless carriers. Genachowski
said there was no reason to continue to
exempt wireless services from rules
designed to preserve the Internet's
traditional open access.
Obama
was a strong supporter of network
neutrality during the presidential
campaign, helping to draw online
support.
He
praised the announcement Monday by
Genachowski, a former Internet executive
he appointed this year to head the FCC, as
an important step "to preserve an open
Internet in which all Americans can
participate and benefit." The
FCC's four guiding Internet principles
since 2005 assure that Internet users can
access any legal content, application or
service and allow them to attach any
device to the Internet as long as it
doesn't harm the
network. CLICK
FOR MORE STORY
AT&T and
Cable Telcos Rejects
project
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OSCAR® ACADEMY
LUNCHEON
/ February
12, 2010 / Beverly Hills, CA &emdash;
Fourteen of the 20 nominees in the acting
categories will be among more than 120
Academy Award® nominees who will
gather at noon on Monday (February 15) at
the Beverly Hilton Hotel when the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors
this year's Oscar contenders at its annual
Nominees Luncheon. Additional
confirmations are expected to come in over
the weekend.
CLICK
FOR TVInews 2010 Oscar
Report
From
the Leading Actor and Actress categories,
Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Colin Firth,
Morgan Freeman, Jeremy Renner, Sandra
Bullock, Carey Mulligan, Gabourey Sidibe
and Meryl Streep are expected to attend.
Vera Farmiga, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Anna
Kendrick, Woody Harrelson and Christoph
Waltz will represent the Supporting
Actress and Actor
categories.
All
five nominees from the Directing category
&endash; Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron,
Lee Daniels, Jason Reitman and Quentin
Tarantino &endash; also are expected to
attend.
Academy
Awards® for outstanding film
achievements of 2009 will be presented on
Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak
Theatre at Hollywood & Highland
Center®, and televised live by the ABC
Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PT/
8 p.m. ET. The Oscar presentation also
will be televised live in more than 200
countries worldwide.
CLICK
FOR TVInews 2010 Oscar
Report
ABOUT
THE ACADEMY CLICK
ToGo Direct to
oscar.go.com/
The
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences is the world's preeminent
movie-related organization, with a
membership of more than 6,000 of the most
accomplished men and women working in
cinema. In addition to the annual Academy
Awards &endash; in which the members vote
to select the nominees and winners
&endash; the Academy presents a diverse
year-round slate of public programs,
exhibitions and events; provides financial
support to a wide range of other
movie-related organizations and endeavors;
acts as a neutral advocate in the
advancement of motion picture technology;
and, through its Margaret Herrick Library
and Academy Film Archive, collects,
preserves, restores and provides access to
movies and items related to their history.
Through these and other activities the
Academy serves students, historians, the
entertainment industry and people
everywhere who love movies.
FOLLOW THE ACADEMY
www.oscars.org
www.facebook.com/TheAcademy
www.youtube.com/Oscars
107.09 The Berlin Wall - Road To
Europe,
and
"Star
Maker" and
SantaTales."
In 1968, before Troy Cory teamed up with
famous German Orchestra leader, Ambros
Seelos in 1970, Troy had already
co-starred with Wendle Cory, Rolf Eden,
and Barabra Valentine in the Berlin AFI,
John Harris, movie production,
"Starmaker."
It was in 1970, that Troy, Ambros Seelos,
music arranger, composer and songwriter,
Sylvester Levay, (Lysy, Levy - "Fly,
Robin, Fly," ), and lyricist and
translator, Jossi Sigl produced the
origianal recording sessions and the
Cory/Seelos concert performances in
Germany, Innsbruck, Austria, and Basel,
Switzerland.
CLICK
FOR MORE People
STORY
CLICK
FOR MORE The Star Maker, Wendle Corey -
Troy
Cory STORY
IMDb
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FOR MORE Rolf Eden
STORY
MORE
Vine
Street.
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The String section on the Munich Sound
recordings was provided by "The Munich
Philharmonics"; piano and arrangements by
Sylvester Levay. Sevral years later it was
Levay who garnered a Grammy Award for
"Fly, Robin, Fly," and wrote the music
scores for the film "Howard the Duck" and
the Vienna musical
"Elisabeth."
Troy Cory collaborated
with Cinema Prize Records and Agil Musik
and co-wrote the song material with the
Seelos/Levay/Michalke/Sigl/ team, in
producing the album, entitled, "Today's
Puzzle."
The end of
the 1970s found Troy Cory playing Santa
Claus in the German/American production
film "Merry Christmas: Just in the Nick of
Time," starring Priscilla Cory, as "Little
Miss Santa," and featuring the late German
singer, Manuela. Produced by VRA TelePlay
Pictures, Bohemia Film and Gábor
Wagner, of ARD, the story was filmed in
and around the city of Munich, Nymphenburg
and Castle Neuschwanstein, Germany and in
Oberndorf, Austria, the small village and
church where the Christmas carol "Silent
Night" was performed for the first time on
December 25, 1818.
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STORY
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Marybeth
Peters became the United States Register
of Copyrights on August 7, 1994.
From
1983 to 1994 she held the position of
policy planning adviser to the register.
She has also served as acting general
counsel of the Copyright Office and as
chief of both the Examining and
Information and Reference divisions.
Peters is a frequent speaker on copyright
issues; she is the author of The General
Guide to the Copyright Act of 1976. She
delivered the 2004 Brace Memorial Lecture
(at New York University School of Law) and
the 1996 Horace S. Manages Lecture at
Columbia University School of Law. She
serves on the Intellectual Property
Advisory Committees of several law
schools.CLICK
FOR MORE STORY - Marybeth
Peters
108-Patent
Suit Johnson & Johnson Wins Stint
Claims
February 2, 2010 /
LITIGATION $1.73-billion settlement
in stent
suits.
Johnson &
Johnson said Boston Scientific Corp. would
pay $1.73 billion to settle two suits
related to patents for medical
stents.
Natick, Mass.-based
Boston Scientific faces additional court
challenges to its Promus stent products,
including a lawsuit by Cordis
Corp
Stents are mesh-wire
tubes used to hold arteries open after
they are surgically cleared of blockages.
108brin&PageToSellGooglestock .
Google
Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey
Brin plan to sell 5 million shares apiece
of their company stock, worth $5.5 billion
combined at current prices.
According to regulatory documents, Page
and Brin will still own 47.7 million
shares or 48% of the voting power,
combined after their personal stock sales.
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt
controls nearly 10% voting power. The trio
will still continue to control the
company.
The sales will occur periodically during
the next five years and leave the two with
48% of the voting power among
stockholders, down from roughly 59% now. A
tviNews blog report - January 23,
2010.
108Editor&PublisherRevived.
/ EDITOR & PUBLISHER MAGAZINE, The one
hundred year old publishing company is
back in business again.
EDITOR & PUBLISHER MAGAZINE, founded
in 1901 and merged in 1907 with The
Journalist, a weekly founded in 1884 is
back in business again, "seamlessly" . . .
says Josie Cory, publisher of tviNews.
Long the bible of the U.S. newspaper
industry, the publication has been
revived" under a new publisher just two
weeks after Nielsen Co. shut the venerable
trade magazine down.
Duncan McIntosh Co., an Irvine, CA-based
company that ironically publishes FishRap
News, and titles such as Boating World,
has acquired it for undisclosed terms.
Nielsen originally pulled the plug after
selling much of its trade magazine
division, including titles such as Adweek,
Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter, to
e5 Global Media.
We're going to continue to be the main
information source, the main idea source
for the newspaper industry," said Mark
Fitzgerald, who was named Editor &
Publisher 's editor Thursday. "We're all
very excited around here about the
news."
Editor & Publisher, a magazine which
has chronicled the US newspaper industry
for over a century, was sold, exactly two
weeks after being shut down by its owner,
the Nielsen Co.
Duncan McIntosh, whose company also
produces the Newport Boat Show, stated
that; "such a critical information source
for a newspaper industry so desperately in
need of help should not go away."
"I've been a reader of Editor &
Publisher over the course of 30 years and
know its incredible value to readers and
advertisers," McIntosh said.
During the last several years, Newspapers
have been transforming beyond the printed
page to all forms of digital media.
Imagine loosing the one place where the
industry could have a conversation with
itself and exchange ideas and best
practices for navigating . . .
(networking, hypertext) navigating -
Finding your way around. Often used of the
Internet, particularly the World-Wide Web.
Known as the "bible" of the news industry,
Editor & Publisher has been closely
following the struggles of a US newspaper
industry grappling with declining
circulation, falling print advertising
revenue and the migration of readers to
free news online.
Editor & Publisher 's new owner said
there would be a February print issue of
the magazine. E&P's website
immediately resumed operations upon the
completion of the sale.
Nielsen announced last month it was
closing Editor & Publisher and Kirkus
Reviews, a book review publication which
was founded in 1933, and selling several
other brands including the Hollywood
Reporter and Billboard.
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USvsSecretSwissAccounts Flipping
STORY
U.S. and
Swiss reach deal over secret UBS bank
accounts. The agreement will end a legal
case in which the U.S. sought names of
Americans suspected of evading
taxes.
U.S. and
Swiss negotiators have initialed a
settlement that averts a legal showdown
over the U.S. government's landmark
challenge to Swiss bank secrecy, a
government lawyer said
Wednesday.
The U.S.
government had sought a federal court
ruling compelling Switzerland's largest
bank, UBS, to turn over the names of
Americans suspected of dodging taxes
through the use of 52,000 secret
accounts.
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Accounts Flipping
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109s - TVImagazine
Photo Ops - 18w and
interviews.
The panel will explore the potential of
the combination of the TV, the set-top,
the broadband connection and digital video
recorder and how every player in the
entertainment and technology food chain
&endash; from content owner to middleware
and headend operator, to the subscriber
service provider and finally to the CE
manufacturer, all play an equally key
role.
OCT 23, 2009 /
110-MicrosoftTimelineWindows
7 launched -
STANDBY
Microsoft has taken two parallel routes in
its operating systems. One route has been
for the home user and the other has been
for the professional IT user.
The dual routes have generally led to home
versions having greater multimedia support
and less functionality in networking and
security, and professional versions having
inferior multimedia support and better
networking and security.[citation
needed]
The first version of Microsoft Windows,
version 1.0, released in November 1985,
lacked a degree of functionality and
achieved little popularity, and was to
compete with Apple's own operating
system.[citation needed] Windows
1.0 is not a complete operating system;
rather, it extends MS-DOS.
Microsoft Windows version 2.0 was released
in November, 1987 and was slightly more
popular than its predecessor. Windows 2.03
(release date January 1988) had changed
the OS from tiled windows to overlapping
windows. The result of this change led to
Apple Computer filing a suit against
Microsoft alleging infringement on Apple's
copyrights.
GPS system puts Droid phone on the map
/ With Google Android in its corner,
Verizon capitalizes on the search giant's
navigation tools.
Nov. 1st, 2009 / The Droid, a rival
to the iPhone, is not only a chance for
Google and Verizon to shine, but also
troubled Motorola, which is badly in need
of a hit. (Verizon Wireless)
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Legends
of Poker - More Then Vegas / By
Pete
Allman
The game of poker is truly a game of skill
and in todays society, thanks to
television coverage and all those
celebrities indulging in the game, it is a
household word.
Legend has it, that poker dates back
to 900 BC in China when Mu-Tsung was said
to have played a form of '' domino
cards''. It has also been said
that poker evovled in the 1400's as
a European game. However, Poker
in America started in Mississippi on
riverboats and was a compliment
to three card Monti , which was dealt
with a 20 card deck that only
contained aces, kings, queens, jacks
and10's.
The big step in the evolution of poker was
in Neveda where it was declared
illegal in 1910.
In California the Attorney
General declared it a game of skill,
thus anti-gambling laws couldn't stop the
masses from playing poker. Then,
in 1931 poker was declared
a legal game in Nevada.
Today, one of the most respected
and successful places to play poker
is The Bicycle Casino, located in
Bell Gardens-10 minutes south of
downtown Los Angeles. In speaking
with Kelley O' Hara, Director
of Marketing for Bicycle Casino and
Stanley Sludikoff of Poker Player
Newspaper, I learned why Bicycle
Casino is so popular
throughout Southern
California and holds
more tournaments than any casino in
the United States.
First it starts with the
gentlemen who understands what the
public wants in poker. Haig
Kelegian, the managing partner of Bicycle
Casino had the vision to first unite the
card casinos in Southern California.
Mr Kelegian formed Golden State
Gaming Associates , now California
Gamming Association to cohesively work
together in promoting card games,
especially poker and Pai-Chi.
But as with any business it takes team
effort, that's where The Bicycle
Casino outshines other
properties. Their excutive chef,
Mario Conte for one, has been with the
organization forover 20 years. Chef Mario
uses family resipies and has a large
staff, some of which have been with
him for nearly 20 years. His
philosaphy is: '' only use the best
products and cook from the
heart''. That philosaphy
radiates with the entire staff at Bicycle
Casino.
What's not to like with a chef from Italy,
a diversed staff, and an all new
State-of-the-Art Grand Poker
Ballroom. It's an impressive and
exciting place to visit. A place
where younever know who's playing poker or
for that matter Pai Chi.
I came across some actors I
interviewed over the years, and one of
them was Glen Thurman. Glen is
not only a fine actor but he is an
excelent poker palyer, who enjoys to
play at The Bicycle Casino. This
event celebrated the 25th anniversary
of The Bicycle Casino and
the opening of their Grand Poker
Ballroom.
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China-USwinsMediaWar
| China's limits on entertainment imports
violate free trade practices, WTO
rules
The
ruling is seen as a win for U.S.
industries working to distribute
films, music and books in
China. Still, trade experts say not to
expect big
changes.
Workers
make repairs to the display at a Beijing
movie theater near a model of a character
from the "Transformers" films. Wednesday's
World Trade Organization ruling could help
open the Chinese market to more U.S.
movies. (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)
The
decision was seen as one of the toughest
against China by the WTO since it joined
the trade body in 2001 and agreed to give
equal treatment for domestic and foreign
companies. And it comes as the U.S.
continues to face a massive trade deficit
with China -- $103 billion through June of
this year -- an issue that the Obama
administration has yet to tackle head on
but which looms large in the coming
months.
August
13, 2009 / Washington. The LAtimes
reported that . . . in deciding that China
broke international trade rules by
restricting imports of movies, music and
books, the World Trade Organization handed
the U.S. a victory in a contentious issue
that has long rankled purveyors of
copyrighted media products.
But
it doesn't mean Hollywood or Silicon
Valley will be cashing in any time soon.
The
ruling, issued Wednesday by a WTO panel in
Geneva, called on China to stop requiring
foreign media suppliers to go through the
costly process of distributing goods
through Chinese state-owned entities. It
also urged China to allow foreign
companies to sell music over the Internet,
a potentially huge opportunity for
companies such as Apple Inc., with its
iTunes. China has the largest number of
Internet users, but piracy online and in
the streets is rampant.
The
decision was seen as one of the toughest
against China by the WTO since it joined
the trade body in 2001 and agreed to give
equal treatment for domestic and foreign
companies. And it comes as the U.S.
continues to face a massive trade deficit
with China -- $103 billion through June of
this year -- an issue that the Obama
administration has yet to tackle head on
but which looms large in the coming
months.
Although
China has complied with past WTO rulings
against it, analysts say Beijing could
appeal the latest decision, which could
drag out the case for many more months.
The complaint was first brought by the
U.S. in spring
2007. MORE
COMING.
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/ ARMY ARCHERD - A HOLLYWOOD LEGEND Dies
Sept. 7th 2009 /
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Army Archerd interviewed everyone from
Hollywood stars to heads of state in his
illustrious 52 years as a Daily Variety
columnist.
In 1947, Archerd was hired by the
Herald-Express as assistant (i.e., "leg
man") to drama-movie editor-columnist
Harrison
Carroll.
In addition to covering the studios,
Archerd began reporting on the local
nightclub scene, which included Sunset
Strip sites like the Mocambo and Ciro's
and music spots down La Cienega, La Brea
and Ventura
Boulevard.
After leaving Harrison Carroll, the Daily
Variety editor Joe Schoenfeld hired
Archerd in 1953 to replace columnist
Sheilah Graham CLICK
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AFI FEST -
will celebrate its 23rd year When: 2009: October 30th and
November 5th /
Where: Hollywood, - Mann's
Chinese Theaters / In the spirit of
"giving back" to our community and to
promote philanthropy through film, AFI
FEST will offer complimentary individual
tickets to all screenings, including a
limited number of seats to the
galas.
The festival headquarters will be
at the historic Mann's Chinese Theaters
between October 30th and November 5th, and
then move to the seaside for screening in
Santa Monica presented in association with
the American Film Market (AFM). The
Hollywood Roosevelt returns as the
festival's host hotel.
Each fall, AFI FEST presents a
survey of the year's most significant
films. Featuring international work from
emerging filmmakers, global showcases of
films from the great masters and
red-carpet gala premieres, AFI FEST brings
world cinema to the heart of
Hollywood.
When: 2009:
November 4 - 11 /
Where: Santa Monica, California The business of independent
motion picture production and distribution
- a truly collaborative process - reaches
its peak every year at the American Film
Market. Over 8,000 industry leaders
converge in Santa Monica for eight days of
deal-making, screenings, seminars, red
carpet premieres, networking and parties.
Participants come from over 70 countries
and include acquisition and development
executives, agents, attorneys, directors,
distributors, festival directors,
financiers, film commissioners, producers,
writers, the world's press all those who
provide services to the motion picture
industry.
Founded in 1981, the American Film Market
(AFM) has grown steadily to become the
premiere global marketplace where
Hollywood's decision-makers and
trendsetters all gather under one roof.
Unlike a film festival, the AFM is a
marketplace where production and
distribution deals are closed. In just
eight days, more than $800 million in
deals will be sealed &emdash; on both
completed films and those that haven't
started shooting yet &emdash; making AFM
the must-attend industry event.
The AFM transforms Santa Monica. The Loews
Santa Monica Beach Hotel and the Le
Merigot Beach Hotel are converted into a
busy marketplace. All 23 screens on the
Santa Monica Promenade and the surrounding
community become AFM screening rooms for
the entire eight-day event and eight
digital and video screening rooms are
added just for the AFM. Participants may
view more than 900 screenings of
approximately 500 films - 31 new films
every two hours - the majority of them
world or U.S. premieres.
Titles range from big budget blockbusters
that will be released by the major studios
in the U.S., to lower budget art and genre
films recognized at international film
festivals, all destined for theaters and
television around the world.
With 8,000 attendees, 900 screenings, and
seminars programmed by leading industry
organizations, the American Film Market
continues to be the pivotal destination
for independent filmmakers and business
people from all over the world.
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MIPCOM 2009 - October 5th - 11th --
The
Simpsons Celebrate 20th Anniversary at
MIPCOM
2009. ***
October 5, 2009 -- THE
SIMPSONS, the longest-running
primetime TV series in history, is
celebrating its 20th anniversary at MIPCOM
2009. In partnership with Twentieth
Century Fox Television Distribution which
handles international distribution for the
show, MIPCOM is holding a series of events
to mark THE SIMPSONS global success
over the past two decades.
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