•
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.
• CLICK
FOR MORE STORY
•
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
•
•
101CTIA-reported
that WiTel Mobile phone usage keeps
growing
•• •
Americans used more than 1.1
trillion minutes in the last half of 2009,
an increase of 38 billion from the same
period in 2008.
•• •
U.S. mobile phone users are
talking, texting and surfing the Web more
than ever, according to new data from a
wireless industry trade
group.
•• •
CTIA's latest semiannual industry
survey by CTIA -- the Wireless Assn.
showed that in the last half of 2009,
consumers used more than 1.1 trillion
minutes, up 38 billion from the same
period in 2008.
•• •
Consumers sent almost 5 billion
text messages per day in the last half of
2009.
•• •
The group did not offer a
comparable figure for text messaging from
2008, but it did say that the number of
multimedia messages -- those that contain
a picture or video -- more than doubled
year over year.
•
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-
TroyCSnews111-108w.jpg
•••
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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Seelos
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AmbrosBand&Troy101s-
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
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FCClogo•
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."
• CLICK
FOR MORE STORY
•
102.09FCCworkout'netneutrality'rules /
Oct23, 2009.
•106
Hewlett Packard Co. settles China
ServiceMark infringement suit. HP,
reported on • March
18, 2010 -- that
it had reached settlements with three
companies that have been accused of
infringing on the printer company's
patents for ink
cartridges.
•• •
HP filed a complaint with the U.S.
International Trade Commission in
September, seeking to ban imports of ink
cartridges by 11 companies.
•• •
Two of those companies &emdash;
InkPlusToner.com of Canoga Park, Calif.,
and Comptree Inc. of City of Industry,
Calif., have agreed to stop the imports
and paid HP an undisclosed sum. HP expects
to reach a similar agreement with Smartone
Services LLC of Hayward,
Calif.
•• •
Zhuhai Gree Magneto-Electric Co. of
China has asked an administrative law
judge to end the commission's
investigation after agreeing to cease
importing these ink
cartridges.
•• •
A default judgment was entered
against the remaining seven companies:
Mipo International Ltd. of Hong Kong,
Mextec Group Inc. of Miami, Fla., and five
Chinese companies, Shanghai Angel Printer
Supplies Co. Ltd., Shenzhen Print Media
Co. Ltd., Zhuhai National Resources &
Jingjie Imaging Products Co. Ltd., Tatrix
International and Ourway Image Co.
Ltd.
•• •
HP said it expects the commission
to rule in favor of banning the
importation of these goods from the
companies.
•• •
HP's ink business has long been a
cash cow, only recently being supplanted
as HP's most profitable business by its
services division. HP's printer and ink
division had 2 1/2 times the operating
profit as the personal computer division
in the last fiscal year, even though the
PC group's revenue was higher. •
Hewlett-Packard says it has resolved several patent violation
complaints filed against manufacturers of
compatible inkjet cartridges.panies.Last
September, the tech giant--arguably best
known as a printer maker--had filed its
latest complaint with the U.S.
International Trade Commission (ITC).
•• •
HP at that time roported that
several makers of cartridges for use in
inkjet printers were infringing on HP
patents by importing and selling their
products in the United States. Following
an investigation by the ITC, 11 different
companies were found to have violated
patents related to HP's 02 inkjet
cartridges.
•• •
Among the 11 companies charged with
patent infringement, InkPlusToner.com and
Comptree Ink reached settlements with HP.
Both have paid HP an undisclosed amount in
damages and have promised to stop selling
the compatible 02 cartridges in the U.S.
HP added that it expects to reach a
similar agreement with SmartOne
Services.
•• •
The ITC also approved the request
of another company, Zhuhai Gree
Magneto-Electric, to stop the
investigation into alleged patent
violations as long as it promises not to
import or sell future compatible inkjet
products in the U.S. Finally, HP said it
expects the remaining seven companies to
receive notices from the ITC ordering them
to stop importing and selling the
cartridges in
question.
•• •
HP is pleased with the outcome on
these matters, and remains committed to
vigorously pursuing legal enforcement
against practices that do not respect HP's
IP [intellectual property]
rights," said Stephen Nigro, HP's senior
vice president for Inkjet and Web Services
Business, Imaging and Printing Group, in a
statement
Thursday.
•• •
HP has a long and fierce history of
going after makers of compatible inkjet
cartridges, typically charging them with
patent infringement. Most of these cases
have been settled with the manufacturers
paying HP damages and promising to stop
selling the cartridges in question.
/// • As for
•
106Google, and its China problem will it
eventually wear off? • •
Google reported -- that it would
delay rolling out in China mobile
applications that run on Android phones
after its Chinese partners came under
government pressure to pull out of deals
with Google.
•• •
Access to Google's Hong Kong search
site has been spotty. Google responded to
mounting concerns of business users of
Gmail and other Google services with a
blog post that offered some technical
solutions that would allow business users
in mainland China to access a corporate
network offshore, similar to what other
businesses do.
•• •
The company
acknowledged that China could block access
to those services at any time. It has set
up a dashboard on its website displaying
which services are accessible and which
ones are being blocked or partially
blocked.
•• •
"My concern is that
lots of Google's mobile services are based
on search," said Kevin Wang, director of
China research for iSuppli Corp. "Now we
don't know if we'll still have their
search engine in
China."
•• •
As long as the
search engine is accessible, Google will
be positioned to capture a growing share
of mobile advertising, analysts said,
noting that the company's strategy is to
get as many Web-enabled phones as possible
into the hands of
consumers.
•• •
That requires
driving costs down for such devices --
known as smart phones because they combine
the features of a regular phone and a
computer.
•• •
Google offers its
platform for free to pass savings on to
developers and trump competitors such as
Microsoft, which charges a licensing fee
to adopt its cellphone
software.
•• •
The company also
made Android an open-source system to
allow manufacturers and mobile providers
to modify the platform as they see
fit.
•• •
China's leading
telecommunications company, China Mobile
Ltd., already has outfitted a line of
third-generation, or 3G, signal devices
named
OPhones.
•• •
China's two other
state-run telecommunications companies,
China Unicom and China Telecom, also have
included Android-based phones in their
strategies to attract users of smart
phones, though to a lesser
extent.
•• •
Wireless data usage
continues to rise. The association counted
more than 257 million data-capable devices
in circulation at the end of 2009,
compared with 228 million a year earlier.
Carriers saw revenues from data services
jump 25.7% year over year, to more than
$22
billion.
•• •
Total wireless
service revenues increased slightly, to
$77 billion from $75 billion. Industry
analysts have said that carriers may soon
introduce new pricing plans, including
tiered pricing for data users, because
revenues are not keeping pace with data
consumption.
<106s-
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 •
113.09iiNetNeutralityRule
•• •
U.S. mobile phone users are
talking, texting and surfing the Web more
than ever, according to new data from a
wireless industry trade
group.
•• •
CTIA's latest semiannual industry
survey by CTIA -- the Wireless Assn.
showed that in the last half of 2009,
consumers used more than 1.1 trillion
minutes, up 38 billion from the same
period in 2008.
•• •
Consumers sent almost 5 billion
text messages per day in the last half of
2009.
•• •
The group did not offer a
comparable figure for text messaging from
2008, but it did say that the number of
multimedia messages -- those that contain
a picture or video -- more than doubled
year over year. • As for
•
106Google, and its China problem will it
eventually wear off? • •
Google reported -- that it would
delay rolling out in China mobile
applications that run on Android phones
after its Chinese partners came under
government pressure to pull out of deals
with Google.
•• •
Access to Google's Hong Kong search
site has been spotty. Google responded to
mounting concerns of business users of
Gmail and other Google services with a
blog post that offered some technical
solutions that would allow business users
in mainland China to access a corporate
network offshore, similar to what other
businesses do.
•• •
The company acknowledged that China
could block access to those services at
any time. It has set up a dashboard on its
website displaying which services are
accessible and which ones are being
blocked or partially
blocked.
•• •
"My concern is that lots of
Google's mobile services are based on
search," said Kevin Wang, director of
China research for iSuppli Corp. "Now we
don't know if we'll still have their
search engine in
China."
•• •
As long as the search engine is
accessible, Google will be positioned to
capture a growing share of mobile
advertising, analysts said, noting that
the company's strategy is to get as many
Web-enabled phones as possible into the
hands of
consumers.
•• •
That requires driving costs down
for such devices -- known as smart phones
because they combine the features of a
regular phone and a
computer.
•• •
Google offers its platform for free
to pass savings on to developers and trump
competitors such as Microsoft, which
charges a licensing fee to adopt its
cellphone
software.
•• •
The company also made Android an
open-source system to allow manufacturers
and mobile providers to modify the
platform as they see
fit.
•• •
China's leading telecommunications
company, China Mobile Ltd., already has
outfitted a line of third-generation, or
3G, signal devices named
OPhones.
•• •
China's two other state-run
telecommunications companies, China Unicom
and China Telecom, also have included
Android-based phones in their strategies
to attract users of smart phones, though
to a lesser
extent.
•• •
Wireless data usage continues to
rise. The association counted more than
257 million data-capable devices in
circulation at the end of 2009, compared
with 228 million a year earlier. Carriers
saw revenues from data services jump 25.7%
year over year, to more than $22
billion.
•• •
Total wireless service revenues
increased slightly, to $77 billion from
$75 billion. Industry analysts have said
that carriers may soon introduce new
pricing plans, including tiered pricing
for data users, because revenues
/// •106
Hewlett Packard Co. settles China
ServiceMark infringement suit. HP,
reported on • March
18, 2010 -- that
it had reached settlements with three
companies that have been accused of
infringing on the printer company's
patents for ink
cartridges.
•• •
HP filed a complaint with the U.S.
International Trade Commission in
September, seeking to ban imports of ink
cartridges by 11 companies.
•• •
Two of those companies &emdash;
InkPlusToner.com of Canoga Park, Calif.,
and Comptree Inc. of City of Industry,
Calif., have agreed to stop the imports
and paid HP an undisclosed sum. HP expects
to reach a similar agreement with Smartone
Services LLC of Hayward,
Calif.
•• •
Zhuhai Gree Magneto-Electric Co. of
China has asked an administrative law
judge to end the commission's
investigation after agreeing to cease
importing these ink
cartridges.
•• •
A default judgment was entered
against the remaining seven companies:
Mipo International Ltd. of Hong Kong,
Mextec Group Inc. of Miami, Fla., and five
Chinese companies, Shanghai Angel Printer
Supplies Co. Ltd., Shenzhen Print Media
Co. Ltd., Zhuhai National Resources &
Jingjie Imaging Products Co. Ltd., Tatrix
International and Ourway Image Co.
Ltd.
•• •
HP said it expects the commission
to rule in favor of banning the
importation of these goods from the
companies.
•• •
HP's ink business has long been a
cash cow, only recently being supplanted
as HP's most profitable business by its
services division. HP's printer and ink
division had 2 1/2 times the operating
profit as the personal computer division
in the last fiscal year, even though the
PC group's revenue was higher. •
Hewlett-Packard says it has resolved several patent violation
complaints filed against manufacturers of
compatible inkjet cartridges.panies.Last
September, the tech giant--arguably best
known as a printer maker--had filed its
latest complaint with the U.S.
International Trade Commission (ITC).
•• •
HP at that time roported that
several makers of cartridges for use in
inkjet printers were infringing on HP
patents by importing and selling their
products in the United States. Following
an investigation by the ITC, 11 different
companies were found to have violated
patents related to HP's 02 inkjet
cartridges.
•• •
Among the 11 companies charged with
patent infringement, InkPlusToner.com and
Comptree Ink reached settlements with HP.
Both have paid HP an undisclosed amount in
damages and have promised to stop selling
the compatible 02 cartridges in the U.S.
HP added that it expects to reach a
similar agreement with SmartOne
Services.
•• •
The ITC also approved the request
of another company, Zhuhai Gree
Magneto-Electric, to stop the
investigation into alleged patent
violations as long as it promises not to
import or sell future compatible inkjet
products in the U.S. Finally, HP said it
expects the remaining seven companies to
receive notices from the ITC ordering them
to stop importing and selling the
cartridges in
question.
•• •
HP is pleased with the outcome on
these matters, and remains committed to
vigorously pursuing legal enforcement
against practices that do not respect HP's
IP [intellectual property]
rights," said Stephen Nigro, HP's senior
vice president for Inkjet and Web Services
Business, Imaging and Printing Group, in a
statement
Thursday.
•• •
HP has a long and fierce history of
going after makers of compatible inkjet
cartridges, typically charging them with
patent infringement. Most of these cases
have been settled with the manufacturers
paying HP damages and promising to stop
selling the cartridges in question.
///
<
106s
•
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 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."
•
CLICK
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. •
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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. •••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
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•ABOUT
THE ACADEMY • CLICK
ToGo Direct to
oscar.go.com/
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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.CLICK
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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.
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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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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
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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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•
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.
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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.
•••
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: 2010:
November
• 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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The
Simpsons Celebrate 20th Anniversary at
MIPCOM
2009. ***•
October 5, 2010 --
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. • mipcom2009.htm
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