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The Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival - Jan
3-13,
2014
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The Hollywood Christmas
Parade
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The 13th Valley Film Festival, Nov. 13 -
17
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Inaugural You Tube Music
Awards
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Wireless Telephone "the
Movie"
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The place that was: Troy Cory's Vine
Street Stage,
Hollywood
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Cory's Road to Harbin,
China
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Digital Hollywood, Marina Del Rey, Oct. 21
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MIPCOM, Cannes, France - Oct. 7-10
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7th Festival of German Film Los Angeles,
Oct.
4-7
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A.C. Lyles, Producer (05-17-1918 -
09-27-2013)
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Huffington Post Deutschland
launched
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Filing China Trademarks - Building a
Better
Mousetrap
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The Secretkeepers of Patent
Trolls
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Italian film "Sacro GRA,wins top
prize
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Venice Film Festival: Eying the "Golden
Lion."
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Toronto Int'l Film Festival - Sept. 5 -
15
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Venice Film Festival - Aug. 28 - Sept.
7
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos Buys Washington
Post
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Winners - TCA Critics
Award
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TCA Top Honors go to "Breaking
Bad"
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Newsweek acquired by
IBT
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Television Critics Awards
2013
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Oprah: Looking Back; Looking Forward
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The 5th Annual Burbank Int'l Film
Festival- Sept 4-8
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Emmy Award Nominees
2013
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News Corp Split - Media Conglomerates' new
trend
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2013
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Kenny G, at TVI-Rosemont Estate,
Pasadena
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The
Troy Cory Show
"HAPPY
4TH OF JULY"
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patents
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Who Owns the "Happy Birthday"
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Munich Film Fest, June 28-July
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CineMerit Award for Michael
Caine
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Best Summer Movies at Munich
Filmfest
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15 Films in Competition for the CineVision
Award
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Cory's Road to Harbin,
China
Troy Cory was among the
first international entertainers and the
first American entertainer to perform in
the People's Republic of China, beginning
in 1988. In itself a notable
culture-historical feat, in view of
China's closed door policies of the late
70s and well into the 80s. The PRC's
administrative climate in comparison is
much less restrictive now and China's open
door policy enables many entertainers to
introduce themselves to the populace
Chinese
audiences
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- The
80th Anniversary Hollywood Christmas
Parade
TVI will be attending the annual event to
update its coverage for its own annual
"Christmas
Around The World" -- Just In The Nick of
Time" Santa Tales iMovie
Series.
CLICK
FOR MORE TCS
INFO.
WHO Benefits the Most From This Years
Marine Toys for Tots?
Television/Film
Star and Grammy Award Nominated Recording
Artist, MARIE OSMOND ("Paper Roses,"
"Donnie & Marie Show," "Dancing
With The Stars," Children's Miracle
Network) will reign as the Grand
Marshal of the historic 80th Anniversary
Hollywood Christmas Parade Benefiting
Marine Toys for Tots, to be presented by
The City of Los Angeles and Associated
Television International,
and produced by
Hollywood's Santa Parade LLC live in
Hollywood.
CLICK
FOR Hollywood ChristmasParade
2011
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"Christmas
Around The World" -- Just In The Nick of
Time"
Santa Tales iMovie
Series.
She delivered the Masterpieces to them.
--
. . . But
rather than becoming excited they acted
like godless heathans, thinking "so what?"
She felt frustrated, angrry and
disappointed all of which she did her best
to conceal.
It Was Her D-Diaries That
Reveled The Method She Used . . . to light
the fire of excitement to the
World?
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It was just last week, (Nov 16th, 2012)
--
that
Josie Cory & Margit
Seelos discussed the contributions of
their respective husbands musical talents
to the world. It was in the late 1970s
that found the two women pushing both
grown men to play Santa Claus, elves, and
create the musical scores for the
German/USA production film "Merry
Christmas;" and YouTube.com sequels:
"Just in the Nick of Time,"
starring Priscilla Cory, as
"Little Miss Santa," and featuring
the late German singer, Manuela.
The Movie itself was Produced by VRA
TelePlay Picture's, Josie Cory;
Bohemia Film's Williams Janovsky;
and ARD's Gábor Wagner.
The Feature Movie 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.
The moral to the Story? . . .
No matter
how old you are . . . if you have VISION
and a DREAM . . . do what the little
princess did. Use the same FAITH and
decisiveness and take
"ACTION."
Bing
Crosby did . . . Jimmy Stewart did . .
.
and so did Troy Cory and Ambros Seelos.
None of the performers specifically or
exactly knew what, where and how the words
to those song they sang would be accepted
by the listener. It takes "ACTION,"
"VISION, and the "FAITH" of a . . . "I
Wish You A Merry Christmas," or the sound
of "Jingle Bells," -- . . . to connect
the monetary RESULTS, and value, to each
other.
Most of us don't even know
--
the
true meaning of CHRISTMAS! You have no
idea how demoralizing that is to the new
kids being introduced each year to the
Yule Time event," says the little
princess, now known as: "Little Miss
Santa." . .
.
Around Castle Neuschwanstein, and the
small village and church of Oberndorf
where the Christmas carol "Silent
Night" was performed for the first
time on December 25,
1818,
the forest are full of Christmas
Trees.
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St.
Nicholas, the Castle
Neuschwanstein,
and the music of Troy Cory and Ambros
Seelos
The vocals, sound tracks and string
section on the Munich Sound recordings
were provided by Troy Cory, Ambros Seelos,
and "The Munich Philharmonics." The piano
and musical arrangements were conducted by
Ambros Seelos and Sylvester
Levay. Several 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."
The Vision, and Culture Values of
--
Bavaria and Austria hospitalities . . .
were used to set the pace of this Yule
Time joint
venture.
Troy
Cory collaborated with VRA
TelePlay Pictures, Cinema Prize Recordords
and Agil Musik to get the final
Results of this annual religious
Mission.
Troy Cory co-wrote the original song
material featured in this Movie with the
Seelos/Levay/Michalke/Sigl/ team, in
producing the LPE-1685 Cinema Prize
album, entitled, "Today's
Puzzle," and CD2525
recording: "An OL' Christmas Card, now
available at
Amazon.com.
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The place that was: Vine Street Stage,
Hollywood
Located in the heart of
Hollywood, across from what used to be the
Hollywood Rnch Market, the Stage was
formerly used to produce the popular
national syndicated Groucho Marx Show and
Steve Allen Shows.
In the mid 70s the Corys accquired
the property and from 1976-1979 - Troy
Cory's Vine Street Studio was the loction
of the first Music Videos produced: Rod
Stewart ("If Ya Think I'm Sexy," and
"Blondes Have More Fun;" Alana Stewart;
Nicolette Larson; Jackson Browne; Tom
Petty and the Heart Breakers; Randy
Meisner of the Eagles; Kiss; Joni
Mitchell; Rachel Welch; German singer
Manuela; James Coburn (Schlitz Beer
commercial); Ronnie McDonald (McDonalds);
It's most
famous tentant was the Peter Marshall
owned "Au Petit Cafe, a popular "hangout"
for people in the industry.
At the end of 1979, when the
undisputed Queen of Disco, Donna Summer,
was topping the pop charts with "Hot
Stuff," she decided to own her own studio
near her Hancock Park Home and bought Vine
Street Studios from the Corys. Vine Street
Video moved its research editing and video
optical disks division to Pasadena,
Calfornia, near the Rose Bowl . . .
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Hollywood
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Cory's Road to Harbin,
China
Troy Cory was among the
first international entertainers and the
first American entertainer to perform in
the People's Republic of China, beginning
in 1988. In itself a notable
culture-historical feat, in view of
China's closed door policies of the late
70s and well into the 80s. The PRC's
administrative climate in comparison is
much less restrictive now and China's open
door policy enables many entertainers to
introduce themselves to the populace
Chinese
audiences
Back in the 80s, as a goodwill ambassador
representing the U.S.A., Troy Cory and his
back-up dancers and singers, "The Brooke
Sisters," were the first entertainers from
the United States to appear in a full
staged program in the People's Republic of
China during the Shanghai TV Festival, and
televised on China's National Television
(CCTV), viewed by over 300 million
people.
It was there Cory met Jiang Zemin, then
mayor of Shanghai, and who later became
the 5th President of the People's Republic
of China.
The '88 Shanghai Concert was
the beginnings of Troy's concert tours in
China for the next two decades. The
concerts, just to name a few, included the
following cities: Shanghai, Beijing,
Anshan, Tsingtao or Qingdao,
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dealtosteal680.html / Book Review: The
Wireless Telephone®© -
"the Movie."
"Sometimes
an idea whose time
has come -- is just a little too
soon!"
This fast-moving,
epic-scale 440 page tviPublishing.com
book, documents
over 110 years of the device itself, and
the effects & elements of
The
Wireless
Telephone®©.
The device, and the elements and effects
attached thereto, were first developed,
registered, demonstrated, and published
by: NATHAN B. STUBBLEFIELD, of MURRAY,
KENTUCKY
The
sole purpose of the public
Wireless
Telephone®©
demonstrations
was to sell territorial deeds throughout
the U.S.A. for the use of his
WiTEL®© device for
broadcasting purposes, that including his
7 digital TeleKey Area Code connecting
system.
Since that time, 1892 to 2012, the
improvments of his designs and the
maintanance of his intelectual property
rights by his territorial deed Wireless
Telephone®© holders, and
his heirs. A few of the name changes used,
and accepted by the NBSwitel.com
organization to identify and update the
Wireless Telephone®© name
to fit modern-day unsage include: Radio,
Television, LookRadio, WiTEL, CellPhone,
iPhone, Firewire-187,
etc.
Like authors of the Bell & Edison
inventions, the NBS WirelessTelephone.org
family will own the nbswitel.com
intellectual property rights --
"FOREVER MINUS A
DAY."
The five chapters of WiTEL facts,
and true-life adventures of one of the
most unsung inventors in history, whose
revolutionary innovations have effected
every human being on the planet over the
last three generations! Based on the true
story of inventor and part-time melon
farmer Nathan B. Stubblefield's (and
subsequently his grandson Troy Cory's)
battle with the government and U.S.
telephone industry.
"Firewire" tells the tale of two
very different men from two very different
eras who share not only the same blood,
but the same fight - whose battle to
receive recognition for the invention of
the wireless telephone would come at a
heavy price. But the determined small-town
inventor and the impassioned big-city
entertainer both refused to be silenced,
and they took on the rural backstabbers
and the corporate titans alike in a battle
that nobody thought either could win.
The Stubblefields started out as a
typical 1880's Kentucky family, trying to
live their version of the American Dream,
but ended up as anything but! When Nathan
invents a unique device that he prophesied
would eventually be used by nearly
everyone in the world &endash; he was not
far from wrong. Decades later, when his
grandson learns that it was his relative
who indeed invented the wireless phone,
Cory thinks he's struck gold. But his
aspirations are dashed after the telephone
monopolies and political pirates who
initially seized Stubblefield's creation
as their own are just as determined to
shut out his descendant decades later, as
well.
Ignored,
threatened and then buried in years of
struggle, Cory is haunted by what was done
to his family. He becomes a man obsessed
with justice and the conviction that his
grandfather's life work -- or for that
matter, anyone's work -- be acknowledged
by those who stood to benefit. And while
paying the toll for refusing to compromise
his dignity, this everyday David will try
the unthinkable: to strategically bring
Goliath to his knees in a cooperation with
truth and justice for all. --Donna
Jeffries
You don't get to bust through the airwaves
without catching a little static
Across the landscape of the
American Industrial Revolution, within the
field of urban electrification and
communication, the legacy of prominent
inventors such as George Westinghouse,
Thomas Edison, and Alexander Graham Bell
stand proud. Their achievements
celebrated, their status recognized. But
they do not stand alone. Concealed by the
shadows of history, and even more by the
deviousness of corrupt men in power, is
the figure of Nathan B. Stubblefield, a
contemporary of those great men and one of
that era's most innovative and prolific
inventors..
At the time of his death in 1928,
Stubblefield had been granted dozens of
patents, mostly relating to electrical and
wireless technologies. His inventions
completely revolutionized the world of
communications that we know today, yet not
many people even know his name. With over
5.6 billion wireless phones in use today -
there's no denying, wireless technology
has irreversibly changed the world..
This story will open your eyes and
challenge what you think you know about
not only your cell phone, but the
challenges and the victories that brought
these innovations to us in the first
place. More importantly, it gives us
insight into the human tragedy and triumph
that was and still is a part of the
reality of our most innovative
technological pioneers today in America.
--Donna Jeffries
Article by: Josie Cory-Troy
Cory-Stubblefield, AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY
OF BROADCASTING
5
VOLUMES
"Clichés
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Songwriters and for Special Occasions"
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LA Auto Show Nov. 22 - Dec.
1
The 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show (LA Auto
Show®) will host journalists and top
industry leaders from more than 50
countries as LA becomes the global stage
for some of the most important vehicle and
industry announcements of the year. Join
tviNews journalists, Josie Cory, Gary
Sunkin, Mark Anderson, and Troy Cory
to witness more than 50 debuts plus dozens
of other significant technology and
business announcements during three Press
Days (November 19-21).
Connected Car Expo -
Innovative technologies such as driver
assist and cloud-based infotainment are
rapidly fueling change within the
automotive industry. In response to this
change, LA Auto Show organizers have
created the Connected Car Expo &emdash; a
three-day press showcase and one-day
C-level conference focused on the
intersection of the automotive and
technology industries as they pave the way
in designing the connected car space.
More
About
CCE
"GREEN CAR OF
THE YEAR®"
FINALISTS
FOR 2014
LOS
ANGELES - Green Car Journal has identified
its five finalists for the magazine's
high-profile 2014 Green Car of the
Year® program. The five 2014 models
include the Audi A6 TDI, BMW 328d, Honda
Accord, Mazda3, and Toyota Corolla. These
five finalists are also honored as Green
Car Journal's "Top 5 Green Cars for 2014"
and earn the magazine's "Green Car Product
of Excellence" honors.
An increasing number of vehicle
models are considered for the Green Car of
the Year® program each year, a
reflection of the auto industry's
expanding efforts in offering new vehicles
with higher efficiency and improved
environmental impact. Green Car Journal
has been honoring the most important
"green" vehicles every year at the LA Auto
Show, since its inaugural award announced
at the show in 2005.
"The diversity of this field of
finalists illustrates not only that
'green' has gone mainstream, but also that
there is no single approach to achieving
ever higher levels of fuel efficiency and
environmental performance," says Ron
Cogan, editor and publisher of Green Car
Journal and CarsOfChange.com. "There's
something for everyone in this year's
field of finalists, including clean
diesel, high efficiency gasoline, and
hybrid/plug-in hybrid power featured in
mainstream, sporty, and executive
models."
Finalists are selected for their
achievements in raising the bar in
environmental performance. Availability to
the mass market is a factor to ensure
honored models have the potential to make
a real difference in environmental impact,
and finalists must be available for sale
by January 1st of the award year.
Green Car of the Year®
jurors include auto enthusiast and Tonight
Show host Jay Leno,
plus leaders of the nation's major
environmental organizations including
Jean-Michel Cousteau, president of Ocean
Futures Society; Frances Beinecke,
president of the Natural Resources Defense
Council; Michael Brune, executive director
of the Sierra Club; and Matt Petersen,
board member of Global Green USA. Green
Car Journal editors round out the 2014
Green Car of the Year® jury.
The
Finalists:
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The Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival - Jan
3-13,
2014
JULIA ROBERTS TO RECEIVE SPOTLIGHT
AWARD FOR "AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY"
Palm SpringPalm Springs, CA
&endash; The 25th annual Palm Springs
International Film Festival (PSIFF) will
present Academy Award® winning actress
Julia Roberts with the Spotlight Award for
August: Osage County at its annual Awards
Gala. The Gala will also present
awards to previously announced honorees
Sandra Bullock, Bruce Dern, Matthew
McConaughey and Steve McQueen.
Presented by Cartier and hosted by
Mary Hart, the Awards Gala will be held
Saturday, January 4 at the Palm Springs
Convention Center. The Festival runs
January 3-13, 2014.
The
Weinstein Company presents August: Osage
County which tells the dark, hilarious and
deeply touching story of the strong-willed
women of the Weston family, whose lives
have diverged until a family crisis brings
them back to the Midwest house they grew
up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who
raised them.
Tracy
Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the
same name made its Broadway debut in
December 2007 after premiering at
Chicago's legendary Steppenwolf Theatre.
It continued with a successful
international run and won five 2008 Tony
Awards including Best Play.
August: Osage County is
directed by John Wells and features an
all-star cast including Meryl Streep,
Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Chris
Cooper, Abigail Breslin, Benedict
Cumberbatch, Juliette Lewis, Margo
Martindale, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne
Nicholson, Sam Shepard and Misty
Upham.
About
-
The Palm Springs International Film
Festival (PSIFF) is one of the largest
film festivals in North America, welcoming
135,000 attendees annually for its lineup
of new and celebrated international
features and documentaries. The
Festival is also known for its annual
Black Tie Awards Gala, honoring the best
achievements of the filmic year by a
celebrated list of talents who, in recent
years, have included Ben Affleck, Javier
Bardem, Cate Blanchett, Danny Boyle,
Bradley Cooper, George Clooney, Daniel
Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Clint
Eastwood, Ron Howard, Helen Mirren, Sean
Penn, Brad Pitt, Natalie Portman, Charlize
Theron and Kate Winslet.
The Awards Gala -
of the 25th annual Palm Springs
International Film Festival is presented
by Cartier and sponsored by Mercedes Benz
and Entertainment Tonight. The City of
Palm Springs is the Title Sponsor of the
Film Festival. Presenting Sponsors are
Wells Fargo, The Desert Sun and Spencer's.
Major sponsors are AARP, Agua Caliente
Band of Cahuilla Indians, Wessman
Development, Bank of America, Wintec,
Regal Entertainment Group, Windermere Real
Estate, Eisenhower Medical Center,
Guthy-Renker, Integrated Wealth
Management, PalmSpringsOasis.com, Ocean
Properties, Panavision, Chihuly and
Telefilm Canada.
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The 13th Valley Film Festival, Nov. 13 -
17
The 13th VFF will take place
November 13 -17 at Laemmle NoHO.
The Valley Film Festival is a
non-profit project of Community Partner an
relies on volunteers, corporate sponsorsf
filmmaking in L.A.'s San Fernando
Valley.
CINEMABILITY, a powerful
documentary exploring the evolution
of disability portrayals in film and
television will screen on November 17 and
close The Valley Film Festival.
"Cinemability" is a star studded
documentary that takes us on a thought
provoking and humorous journey to explore
the evolution of disability portrayals in
film and television
From the early days of silent films
to present day, from Chaplin to X-Men,
disability portrayals are ever changing.
This dynamic documentary takes a detailed
look at the evolution of "disability" in
entertainment.
evolution of disability portrayals
in film and television and will screen
Nov. 15, at the Lammle NoHo.
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Inaugural You Tube Music
Awards
YouTube is launching its own
music awards and he inaugural YouTube
Music Awards will take place Nov. 3 with
show at Pier 36 in New York, and will be
streamed live online.
Among the mainstream acts to
headline the Awards are Lady Gaga, Eminem,
Arcade Fire, Avicii, M.I.A., Earl
Sweatshirt, Tyler the Creator and Walk Off
the Earth.
Actor Jason Schwartzman will host
the YouTube Music Awards and the show will
also feature events from Seoul, South
Korea; Moscow;
Voting is open in six categories,
including Video, Artist and YouTube
Phenomenon of the Year.
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114- A.C. Lyles, Producer (05-17-1918 -
09-27-2013)
A.C. Lyles, Veteran producer at
Paramount, passed away at his home in Bel
Air on September 27.
Lyles was a living link to 'Old
Hollywood'.' He started out at Paramount
working for Adolph Zukor and spent the
following years of his life in the movie
business.
The ever gentlemanly and likeble Lyles,
became famous for his longevity at
Paramount, marking 85 years at the studio
in May, when A.C. celebrated a
well-attended 95th birthday lunch at Musso
and Frank's in Hollywood, as always in
typically high spirits although he worried
about his declining health in the last
year. Click
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Huffington Post Deutschland
launched
Will Arianna Huffington replicate the
success of her other international blog
and aggregation sites in Germany, and
reach her goal of becoming one of
Germany's five biggest news sites by
2018.
Her
latest international edition of The
Huffington Post, "Huffington Post
Deutschland," went live October 10, in
Germany, in cooperation with Tomorrow
Focus AG, a part of the Hubert Burda Media
conglomerate. Huffington Post Deutschland
aims to bring bring her mixture of
aggregation, reporting and celebrity
punditry to German readers.
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Filing China Trademark Is is a
SmartGrabs
The Kardashian sisters don't sell their
clothing and perfume in China, and you
can't buy authentic J. Crew khakis here.
However, both names are already
trademarked by Chinese businesspeople
looking to profit from American
enterprises that want to tap China's
booming retail markets.
Extortion?
Nope. It's called "trademark squatting."
And it's legal in China, where trademarks
generally are awarded to those who are
first to register them with government
authorities.
If
these and other U.S. companies want to use
their own names, they probably will have
to pay the Chinese holder for the
rights.
The
practice has been given renewed attention
with Apple Inc. embroiled in a legal
battle with a financially troubled Chinese
electronics company that holds the rights
in China for the iPad names.
Proview
Shenzhen is seeking $1.6 billion in
compensation from the Cupertino, Calif.,
technology giant.
Proview
has owned the iPad trademark since 2000, a
decade before Apple's tablet computer was
launched. Therefore, experts don't
consider it a typical example of
squatting. Still, they said the
high-profile case could inspire countless
others to join China's trademark
free-for-all.
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The Secretkeepers of Patent
Trolls
Sooner
or later a major webplayer has to
give
us
something we will never
forget."
www.Google.com
. . . was that
something
in
1997 . . . it was the
NBSWirelessTelephone- in 190.2.
The
SmartPhone is the:
www.thedealtosteal.com
www.nbs100.com
www.speedollars.com
www.lookradio.com
www.smartPhone90.com
www.witel.org
www.smart90.com
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www.webusersguild.com
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Beyond its intended aims, patents are
being abused to benefit the few.
Patent trolls are a widely reported
problem for technology makers and big
business. They are companies that exist
primarily to buy up patents and then
collect money, in the form of licenses or
lawsuit settlements, from alleged
infringers of those patents. Trolls take
advantage of a patent system with serious
flaws, and their abuse of the system is
creating, as a White House fact sheet
recently put it, a "drain on the American
economy."
And, as it turns out, a drain on you, the
ordinary consumer.
Let's assume you're a technology consumer
-- and these days, that's almost all of
us. Patent abuse can cut off your access
to the latest and greatest products and
services. When a troll waves the specter
of a lawsuit or an overly broad patent in
front of a tech startup, it is not
uncommon for the startup to drop features
from products, drop products altogether or
even fold up shop; this was the key
finding of a 2012 study, from Santa Clara
University in Silicon Valley, on startups
and patent trolls. Big companies have
millions to fight a patent battle; small
businesses must give in or give up.
The other way that patents affect you is
more complicated. It begins with the
realization that you are not just a
consumer, but as a user of technology, you
are a player in the patent system.
Have you connected computers to a wireless
network? There are patents on doing that.
Have you scanned a document and emailed
it? There are patents on that too. Have
you used a smartphone app to purchase
something? Then there are a few more
patents you should look at.
These are no mere hypotheticals. All three
examples represent real cases in which
consumers of technology -- albeit small
businesses, not individuals -- have been
caught up in patent fights just because
they used a product as it was designed to
be used. In fact, the patent owners have
turned from attacking big companies to
threatening mom-and-pop stores, Internet
cafes and hobbyist app developers too
small to put up the requisite
million-dollar defense, and that are
likely to cave in and pay on demand.
As new technologies develop, the problem
only worsens . Simpler programming
languages, open-source hardware and 3D
printing will enable individuals to
tinker, invent, create and manufacture --
and suffer at the mercy of a confounding
and costly world of patent law., usable
technology for all. As consumers, we must
demand patent reform to protect that
promise of the future.
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Venice Film Festival: Eying the "Golden
Lion."
Italian Film wins top
prize. The Golden Lion, is
surprisingly awarded to Gianfranco Rosi's
"Sacro GRA." The film screened on the
final Thursday morning of the Mostra, when
most critics had already migrated to
Toronto.
The
documentary is about life along the
highway that circles Rome by director
Gianfranco Rosi.
It
was the first time an Italian film has won
the top prize at Venice in 15 years, when
Gianni Amelio won for "The Way We Laughed"
in 1998. "Sacro GRA" won a standing
ovation during its official world
premiere, but mixed international
reviews.
Rosi called the award a
breakthrough for documentaries, which were
included this year for the first time in
the main competition.
"I
didn't expect to win such an important
prize with a documentary," Rosi said. "It
was truly an act of courage, a barrier has
been broken. Now finally documentaries are
being seen alongside fiction, therefore
documentary is cinema."
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VENICE,
Italy - The Venice Film Festival
got under way with a little help from
George Clooney, Sandra Bullock and their
new film "Gravity."
The Hollywood duo were joined by the
film's Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron as
the space thriller opened the 70th annual
festival with its world premiere in the
prestigious opening night slot.
The film, a nerve-shredding suspenser, was
shot in 3D. In "Gravity," Bullock and
Clooney play two astronauts stranded in
space. It doesn't open in theaters until
Oct. 4, but it's already drawing rave
reviews from critics.
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Washington Post Has New
Owner
Amazon founder
and CEO Jeff Bezos has agreed to buy the
Washington Post Co. for $250 million.
The deal is being made by Bezos
alone, and is not being done with
involvement from Seattle-based Amazon.
It's an unexpected move for Bezos, a
self-made billionaire whose far-flung
interests -- among them unearthing old
rocket engines from the bottom of the
ocean and inventing a futuristic clock --
haven't included traditional print
media.
Donald Graham, chairman and CEO of
the Washington Post Co., said the board of
directors decided to sell "only after
years of familiar newspaper-industry
challenges made us wonder if there might
be another owner who would be better for
the Post." The transaction covers The
Washington Post and other publishing
businesses, but not Slate magazine,
TheRoot.com or Foreign Policy.
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Critics Award
Winners
BEVERLY
HILLS --
AMC's
Breaking Bad and FX's The
Americans earned top honors at the
Television Critics Association's 29th
annual TCA Awards Saturday evening.
Netflix's House of Cards that had
been up for Outstanding New Program and
Program of the Year,
found itself shut
out.
The
awards, selected by the 220 members of the
critics' organization, honors the best in
television, including shows and
performances not always recognized by Emmy
voters.
Other
winners included HBO's "Game of Thrones,"
CBS' "The Big Bang
Theory," NBC's "Parks and
Recreation," and ABC Family's now-canceled
"Bunheads."
Actress
Tatiana Maslany, who stars on the BBC
America drama "Orphan Black," was honored
for individual achievement in drama, while
Louis C.K. won for individual achievement
in comedy.
The
invitation-only event, hosted by Comedy
Central comedians Keegan-Michael Key
and Jordan Peele, took place at The
Beverly Hilton, home to the TCA's summer
press tour, currently underway.
"These were
not easy choices for our membership
because there were so many deserving
nominees," said TCA president Candace
Havens, adding: "In a year that saw a lot
of great television, the TCA Awards
winners represent the best of the
best."
Barbara
Walters was granted the career achievement
award, an honor given to CBS late-night
host David Letterman at last year's
ceremony. News veteran, Walters who has
been on TV for more than 50 years, is set
to retire next
year.
ere presented in a non-televised
ceremony hosted by Comedy Central's
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.
The 2013 TCA Award
Winners
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Drama
Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black --
BBC
Individual Achievement in
Comedy
Louis C.K., Louie -- FX
Best News/Information
Show
Ken Burns, The Central Park
Five -- PBS
Best Youth Program
Bunheads -- ABC Family
Best Reality
Programming
Shark Tank -- ABC
Outstanding New Program
The Americans -- FX
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Movies, Miniseries or Special
Behind the Candelabra --
HBO
Best Drama Series
Game Of Thrones -- HBO
Best Comedy Series --
TIE
CBS's The Big Bang Theory and
NBC's Parks and Recreation
Career Achievement
Award
Barbara Walters
Heritage Award
Norman Lear's All in the
Family
Program of the Year
Breaking Bad, AMC
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Television Critics Awards
2013
The 29th Annual Television
Critics Awards, (nominees announced during
the July press tour) honoring directors,
producers and actors for outstanding
programming, will take place on August 3,
at the Beverly Hilton.
The invitation-only event from TCA,
gathers a media group of over 200 critics
and reporters from the US and Canada.
"Mad Men," "The Daily Show," "Game
of Thrones," and "The Big Bang Theory" are
making returns this year along with "The
Glee Project" and "Daniel Tiger's
Neighborhood," as first time nominees,
This year's event will be co-hosted
by Comedy Central stars Keegan-Michael Key
and Jordan Peele.
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Newsweek acquired by
IBT
IAC is selling Newsweek to
publisher of International Business Times
less than a year after it ended
publication of its weekly print magazine
and went all digital. The companies did
not disclose financial terms. But they
said that IBT Media has agreed to buy
Newsweek's brand and online operations,
not including The Daily Beast.
The transaction is expected to
close in the coming days, after which
Barry Diller's company, which bought
Newsweek in 2010, will manage the
publication for the transition period of
up to 60 days
IBT co-founder and CEO Etienne Uzac,
said, "We believe in the Newsweek brand
and look forward to growing it, fully
transformed to the digital age." IBT,
founded in 2006, also publishes Medical
Daily, Latin Time.
Newsweek,
will return to the URL
http://www.newsweek.com in the coming
weeks, will add to IBT Media's portfolio
of 10 international online news
properties.
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Oprah "Where Are They Now?" Looking Back;
Looking Forward
The second season of Oprah: "Where
Are They Now?" on July 28th, returned to
OWN, with the special guest Winfrey says
she is asked about more than any other --
her half sister Patricia Lee, whom she met
in 2010 after discovering a well hidden
family secret that her sibling was put up
for adoption at birth. A year later she
revealed to news to the world on The Oprah
Show.
In this new episode, Winfrey
returns to her half-sister's hometown,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to visit her
sibling's new home, celebrate their
sisterhood and host a 50th birthday party
in Lee's honor.
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Annual Burbank International Film Festival
kicks off its Opening Night at Wraner
Bros.
The 5th Annual Burbank
International Film Festival (BIFF) will
take place Sept. 4-8 in beautiful Downtown
Burbank. The festival will kick off its
Opening Night at Warner Bros. to celebrate
their 90th Anniversary with a screening of
the documentary film, The Brothers Warner.
Written and directed by Cass Warner
Sperling (granddaughter of Harry Warner),
the film is an intimate and touching
portrait of the four film pioneers who
founded and ran Warner Bros. for over 50
years.
The evening will begin with
celebrity arrivals, media red carpet, and
opening night screening, followed by the
Gala Reception in Downtown Burbank at the
Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant. There
will be a special performance by Emmy
award-winning writer and stand-up comedian
Brian Kiley (staff writer for Conan
O'Brien).
Over 70 independent films from
around the world will be screened in five
days,. The festival also honors films with
socially conscious themes with awards for
"Diversity" and "Awareness." This year,
BIFF added a "Faith-based" category as
well the "Los Angeles County Student
Filmmakers Award" for local middle and
high school students.
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Emmy Nominations 2013 - Winners
to be announced September
22.
Academy of Television
Arts and Sciences announced this
year's nominees. The nominees for
the year's best in television
offer a healthy dose of surprises
and snubs. The Emmy 2013 winners
will be announced on Sunday,
September 22. Below is a list of
this year's Emmy nominees. The
full list, which includes dozens
and dozens of categories, can be
found on the ATAS website.
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in a Drama Series
Hugh Bonneville, Downton
Abbey
Bryan Cranston, Breaking
Bad
Jeff Daniels, The
Newsroom
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Kevin Spacey, House of
Cards
Damian Lewis,
Homeland
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Actress in a Drama Series
Connie Britton,
Nashville
Claire Danes, Homeland
Vera Farmiga, Bates
Motel
Kerry Washington,
Scandal
Robin Wright, House of
Cards
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Media Conglomerates' new trend: Slim
down!
- News Corp Split.
New News Corp might bid for the Los
Angeles Times.
As
expected at the end
of June Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation
split in two. Most of its television and
film assets were scooped up into a new
company, 21st Century Fox. Over 100
newspapers (including the Times of London
and the Wall Street Journal), educational
businesses and other assets were left to
form a new company with the old name of
News Corp. That begs the question, "Why is
the company splitting in two?"
In
essence, the News
Corp split reflects a broader industry
trend. In recent years difficult to manage
media conglomerates have been slimming
down and becoming more focused.
Viacom, which split
off its broadcast-television business as
CBS Corporation in 2006, will sell off,
advertising division, Outdoor, sometime
this year.
Time Warner
announced in March that it plans to spin
off Time Inc, its magazines unit.
Thomson Reuters
sold off its education business in 2007
and its health-care division in 2012.
Pearson, a
part-owner of The Economist, has sold or
merged various properties to concentrate
on education.
French media group
Vivendi, is expected to sell its telecoms
assets in order to focus on entertainment.
It has taken media companies a while to
catch up with the shift away from the
conglomerate model, which fell out of
favor in other industries in the
1980s.
Investors are hard to convince that there
is any benefit in housing newspapers,
television networks and film studios under
the same roof, and prefer companies with a
sharper focus. And some parts of the
industry are healthier than others: the
sluggish publishing industry is in marked
contrast to the far brighter prospects of
the television business, so it makes
little sense to keep them together. At the
same time a new generation of media bosses
has emerged who are more pragmatic than
the flamboyant, empire-building media
moguls of time past.
A
break-up in particular makes sense for
News Corp, which has spent the past two
years trying to ovecome the scandal
relating to allegations of phone-hacking
and police bribery at the British
newspaper, News of the World, that News
Corp shut down in 2011. Separating the
"good co" (as analysts are calling 21st
Century Fox) from the newspaper business
(dubbed "crap co") insulates the
profitable television divisions from the
repercussions of the scandal. The scandal
so far has cost News Corp $389m in legal
and other costs.
Also, the split may
allow 21st Century Fox to renew its bid
for the 61% of lucrative British satellite
broadcaster BSkyB. News Corp's previous
attempt to take control of BSkyB was
derailed by the phone-hacking allegations.
Although Rupertr Murdoch will serve as
chief executive and chairman of 21st
Century Fox, it will be run by Chase
Carey, News Corp's current chief operating
officer.
At the time rumors
emerged a year ago that Murdoch was
thinking of splitting up News Corp,
investors were thrilled. In the past two
years News Corp's share price has reached
all-time highs.
Businesses, that
benefit from scale of the media industry's
sprawling conglomerates set the stage for
a period of consolidation. Businesses that
would benefit, such as American cable
operators, Time Warner Cable and Charter
Communications, are rumored to be
discussing a merger.
Having recently
bought Virgin Media, a British cable firm,
Liberty Global of America--which already
owns Germany's second-largest cable
operator--is competing with Vodafone to
buy Kabel Deutschland, Germany's
largest.
Mr. Murdoch has
said that he might buy more newspapers if
the price is right, and there is
speculation that the new News Corp might
bid for the Los Angeles Times. Expect more
deals on the horizon asmedia companies,
egged on by investors, slim down and get
into shape.
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106- Supreme Court rejects gene
patents
--
In unanimous
ruling, justices declare that human genes
are a product of nature and cannot be
patented and held for profit. a decision
that medical experts said will lead to
more genetic testing for cancers and other
diseases and to lower costs for
patients.
In a unanimous
ruling, the nine justices declared that
human genes are not an invention, so they
cannot be claimed as a type of private
property.
The decision
invalidates Utah company Myriad Genetics
Inc's patents on two genes that are linked
to breast and ovarian cancer, and the
ruling is likely to lead to several
thousand other gene patents being tossed
as well.
"This is a
landmark decision," said Dr. Stanley
Robboy, president of the College of
American Pathologists. "Genomic medicine
has the potential to be a cornerstone of
medical testing, treatment and clinical
integration, but the question of who owns
your genes needed a definitive answer. Now
we have it."
The broad reach of
the court's decision goes well beyond
genetic testing for cancer.
Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the
court, left little room for doubt about
the justices' view.
"Myriad did not
create anything," he wrote. "To be sure,
it found an important and useful gene, but
separating that gene from its surrounding
genetic material is not an act of
invention."
"This will drive
down the costs of genetic testing. It
should open up the competition and improve
the quality of testing," said Ostrer, a
professor of pathology and genetics at
Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New
York.
Ostrer sued to
challenge Myriad's gene patents when the
company tried to block him from testing
patients who had the genetic mutation that
put them at high risk for breast or
ovarian cancer. Myriad said patients could
use only its test --at a cost of more than
$3,000.
The court's
decision also came as a relief to much of
the biotech industry. While the justices
agreed a "naturally occurring DNA segment"
cannot be patented, they also said DNA
"synthetically created" in a lab is an
invention that can be patented.
Industry lawyers
had worried the court could issue a
sweeping decision that would wipe out
patents for genetically engineered drugs
or farm products, on the theory they were
derived from or copied from natural
genes.
The worst fears of
the biotechnology industry have not been
realized, and inventions in the field of
molecular genetics remain patent
eligible,
Striking down gene
patents had become a rallying cry for
cancer patients and their doctors. The
nation's major medical groups had urged
the court to rein in the patent office and
free doctors and researchers from the hold
placed on so-called patented genes.
The ruling is the
latest to reflect the high court's growing
skepticism about the nation's patent
system. Patents are supposed to spur
innovation by giving inventors an
exclusive license to profit for up to 20
years from what they have created.
Critics have said
that granting too many patents in a
fast-changing area of technology can
discourage
innovation
if one company has legal control over an
area and can charge monopoly profits and
keep out competion.
The U.S. justices
during the last decade have taken up the
issue and issued a series of unanimous
rulings rejecting the views of the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office and the
federal courts that handle patent
claims.
The justices have
said that supposed "inventors" cannot
obtain patents for claimed innovations
that are obvious or rely on natural laws
such as gravity or natural processes such
as chemical reactions in the
body.
They said that
parts of the human body --whether a kidney
or a tiny gene --cannot be patented even
if it takes great skill to isolate this
body part.
In a one-paragraph
concurring opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia
said he could not vouch for the "fine
details of molecular biology" set out in
Thomas's opinion, but agreed with the
conclusion that DNA "in its natural state"
cannot be patented
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Birthday to You" has a history dating back
120 years. A Lawsuit seeks to put "Happy
Birthday " in Public
Domain.
A filmmaker filed a class-action
lawsuit to make the song "Happy Birthday
to You" free for everyone to use.
The plaintiff, Good Morning to You
Productions Corp., a New York-based
company that is making a documentary about
the song, said it belongs in the public
domain.
The publishing arm
of Warner Music Group, Warner/Chappell
Music Inc., owns "Happy Birthday to You,"
and copyrights extend them exclusive
rights over the song's reproduction,
distribution and public performances.
According to the
plaintiff's lawsuit, filed in New York,
the company had to pay Warner/Chappell
$1,500 for a license to use the song.
As the 26-page
court document notes, the song has a
history dating back 120 years.
The tune's origins
date back to the 1893 song "Good Morning
to All" by sisters Mildred J. Hill and
Patty Smith Hill.
The lyrics were: "Good morning to you /
Good morning to you / Good morning dear
children / Good morning to all;
That song
eventually evolved into "Happy
Birthday."
The legal filing
aims to return "millions of dollars" in
licensing fees from Warner/Chappell to
thousands of people and groups that have
paid the company to use the song.
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Munich Film Fest, June 28-July 7 - Award
Winners
ARRI/OSRAM Award: "HELI" by
Amat Escalante
German Cinema New Talent Award: "LOVE
STEAKS by Jakob Lass
CineVision Award: "HALLEY and MY DOG
KILLER"
Bernd Burgemeister TV Movie Prize: "PASS
GUT AUF IHN AUF
Bayern 3 Audience Award: "FREEDOM BUS"
Kinderfilmfest Audience Award: "ERN"EST
& CELESTINE"
One Future Preis for "FREEDOM BUS and
"DANCING IN JAFFA"
The Kinderfilmfest Audience Award went
to"ERNEST & CÉLESTINE" by
Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar and
Stéphane Aubier.
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THE BEST MOVIES OF THE SUMMER AT MUNICH
FILMFEST
The 31ST
INTERNATIONAL FILMFEST MÜNCHEN is
presenting 174 films from 48 countries.
Films by and starring women make up a
significant part of this year's
program.
Germany's biggest summer film festival
will be showing the best new films from
around the world. They are all German
premieres. There are also two specials,
one on outstanding TV series - The New
Epics - and another entitled Films and
Games. The Homage section is showing
classic movies with British actor Sir
Michael Caine, the recipient of Filmfest
München's CineMerit Award this year.
Retrospectives will be honoring Italian
director Paolo Sorrentino and Chilean
filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky. Both will
be on hand at the festival to present
their latest films. 32 films will be
having their world premieres at FILMFEST
MÜNCHEN - 13 their European
premieres.
"2013 will be a festival in which women
play an unusually strong role," said Diana
Iljine, Festival Director of FILMFEST
MÜNCHEN. "Many of this year's films
focus on courageous women. The many great
actress and directors are one of this
year's highlights."
Altogether there are 37 female directors
at this year's Filmfest. The opening night
film Exit Marrakech (June 28) is by Oscar
winner Caroline Link (Nowhere in Africa)
and is a world premiere. Sandra
Nettelbeck's film Mr. Morgan's Last Love
starring Michael Caine and Clémence
Poésy is a European premiere. Saudi
Arabian filmmaker Haifaa al-Mansour is
presenting Wadjda, the first Saudi Arabian
film to be directed by a woman. Acclaimed
French film and stage director Ariane
Mnouchkine will be in Munich for the world
premiere of her latest film Les
Naufragés Du Fol Espoir.
There
are the new films by award winning Indian
director Mira Nair, the filmmakers
Agnès Jaoui and Marion Vernoux from
France as well as Lynn Shelton and Lise
Raven from the USA. There are also many
young, emerging directors, among them
Sophie Fiennes from the UK, Eliza Hittman
from the USA, Sarah Polley from Canada,
Marcela Said from Chile, and Alice
Winocour from France. Fatima Geza
Abdollahyan, Nana Neul, Lola Randl and
Frauke Finsterwalder are presenting world
premieres from Germany.
The many great actresses on the screen
this year include the legendary Fanny
Ardant, Nathalie Baye and Claudia
Cardinale. There are also new movies with
Winona Ryder, Juliane Moore, Marion
Cotillard, Emmanuelle Devos, Kate Hudson,
Bérenice Bejo and young stars such
as Léa Seydoux, Soko, Brit Marling
and Rooney Mara. The German actresses
include Christiane Paul, Veronica Ferres,
Julia Koschitz, Barbara Auer, Katja
Riemann, Hannelore Hoger and Claudia
Michelsen.
Women
who make it despite all odds are big topic
at this year's festival. Like the
supermarket cashiers who discover women's
wrestling in Les Reines du Ring. In
Everyday, the new film by British director
Michael Winterbottom, the wife of a prison
convict manages to master the trials and
tribulations of raising 4 children by
herself. The Immigrant deals with a Polish
woman who emmigrates to the US in the
1920s. In Le Noir (Te) Vous Va Si Bien the
daughter of Muslim immigrants to France
bucks her father's traditional thinking.
The stronger sex also shines in films
about romance.
In Les Beaux Jours, a retired dentist
(Fanny Ardant) is attracted to the
computer teacher in her senior citizen
club. In Mr. Morgan's Last Love a young,
impulsive woman (Clémence
Poésy) rekindles the love of life
in a melancholy American widower and
reminds him of the importance of
friendship. The German Love Steaks focuses
on a young woman who is a cook at a
wellness hotel and becomes passionately
involved with the shy new masseur there.
In the Chinese romantic comedy The Love
Songs of Tiedan, a young man is infatuated
with the three daughters of a former
neighbor he was in love with as a child.
In the French drama La Vie D'Adèle,
winner of this year's Golden Palm, a young
girl finds strength in a passionate love
affair with another young woman.
There are also many films from the Near
and Middle East about courageous women in
different phases of their lives who break
out of the traditional moulds they have
been forced into and who want to determine
what they want out of life. In Wadjda, the
title character, a young girl in Saudi
Arabia, is not going to let anyone rob her
of her dream of having a bicycle. In the
Russian film The Empty Home a fearless
girl sets out from Kirgizstan in search of
a better life. And in THE PATIENCE STONE,
an Afghani wife confronts her comatose
husband with what is going on behind her
veil and in her mind about their
marriage.
Julie Christie as well as directors
Michael Haneke, Barry Levinson and Milos
Forman.
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CineMerit Award for Michael
Caine
The internationally acclaimed
British actor is being honored at this
year's festival with its CineMerit
Award
The
actor, who is being honored for his
extraordinary contributions to the motion
pictures as an art form, has played more
than 150 roles throughout his career.
"Michael Caine is a legend. Not many
actors have had long lasting, wide-ranging
and remarkable careers such as his," says
festival director Diana Iljine. "We're
incredibly proud that he is coming to
Munich to accept our
award."
Sir Michael Caine will receive the 2013
CineMerit Award at a gala on July 1.
Writer-director Sherry Hormann ("Desert
Flower," "3096 Days") will be the speaker.
FILMFEST MÜNCHEN will be screening
five Michael Caine films in its homage to
him, among them Woody Allen's "Hannah And
Her Sisters" and Lasse Hallström's
"The Cider House Rules." Caine was awarded
an Oscar for his performances in these two
films.
Michael Caine will also be on hand for the
European premiere of his latest film, "Mr.
Morgan's Last Love" by Sandra Nettelbeck
("Bella Martha"). Caine plays a lonely
American widower in Paris who meets a
young Parisian woman who changes his
life.
Sir Michael Caine, born in 1933 as Maurice
Joseph Micklewhite, Jr., grew up in
London. Using the stage name Michael Caine
he worked his way up to become one of the
most respected and sought after actors of
his generation - on both sides of the
Atlantic.
His breakthrough came in the mid-sixties
with "Zulu" and later "Alfie," which
brought him an Oscar nomination. He has
also won numerous other major
international awards. In 2000, he was
knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
The list of actors and directors with whom
Michael Caine has worked reads like a
Who's Who of Hollywood: Sean Connery,
Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Elizabeth
Taylor, Shirley McLaine, Nicole Kidman,
Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway,
Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale, to
name just a few.
Since 1997, Filmfest München has
honored outstanding personalities in the
international film community for
extraordinary contributions to motion
pictures as an art form. Previous
recipients include John Malkovich, Julie
Christie as well as directors Michael
Haneke, Barry Levinson and Milos
Forman.
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Partner
The BMW Group and FILMFEST
MÜNCHEN are renewing their long-time
partnership for the 31st edition of the
festival. The BMW Group will be an
official partner of the 31ST INTERNATIONAL
FILMFEST MÜNCHEN (June 28 - July 6).
The world-famous automobile manufacturer
and the festival will be restarting a
partnership that dates back to the early
years of FILMFEST MÜNCHEN.
"Filmfest and BMW go way back together",
commented Filmfest Director Diana Iljine.
"BMW supported the festival more than
twenty years ago. That makes me all the
happier that the BMW Group is once again
our strong partner."
The BMW Group will provide a fleet of
limousines to shuttle festival VIPs to
important events including the opening
night, gala premieres, award ceremonies
and other festival functions.
In addition, BMW will be hosting two major
events at FILMFEST MÜNCHEN. This
year's CineMerit Award ceremony honoring
an outstanding personality in the
international film community will take
place in BMW Welt. Furthermore, the BMW
Museum will be the venue for the award
ceremony of the German Cinema New Talent
Award, one of the most prestigious prizes
for emerging German filmmakers.
"BMW has a long tradition as far as films
are concerned. Munich is the most
important hub of the German film industry
and it is also where our company
headquarters are located", added
Maximilian Schöberl, Director of
Company Communications and Policy of the
BMW Group. "So I'm especially pleased that
we are,
once again, committed to supporting
Filmfest München - Germany's most
significant summer film
festival."
The 2013 CineVision Award ceremony takes
place on Friday, July 5, in the Bavarian
Parliament.
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15 Films in Competition for the CineVision
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A high-caliber jury will
select the winner of the CineVision Award
for Best International Newcomer Film at
this year's FILMFEST MÜNCHEN.
15 films from Europe, North and South
America, Afghanistan and China are
competing for the CineVision Award for
Best International Newcomer Film by a
director with a first or second feature
film in this year's CineVision section,
films that go in new artistic
directions.
2013 marks the seventh consecutive year
for the CineVision Award and its
¤12,000 prize money. Berlin-based
Senator Entertainment AG is its donator.
Greek actress Aggeliki Papoulia,
French-American actor-director Jean-Marc
Barr and Spanish producer-director Luis
Miñarro make up the jury that will
decide this year's winner.
"Who could recognize artistic innovation
better than international pros who have
made names for themselves in precisely
this sector," commented Diana Iljine,
FILMFEST MÜNCHEN Festival Director.
"We're very happy that we have three such
stars of the European Indie scene to
decide who deserves this important
award."
Aggeliki Papoulia is one of the most
acclaimed veterans of the Greek film
scene. The theater group she co-founded,
'blitz', is famous throughout Europe for
its innovative stage productions. She is a
much sought after actress and has starred
in such award winning films "Dogtooth" and
"Alpen" by Greek director Giorgos
Lanthimos.
Jean-Marc Barr has been an international
star since his lead role in Luc Besson's
Drama "The Bog Blue". He has often acted
in the films of Danish director Lars von
Trier. He began directing in 1999 with
"Lovers" which won the High Hopes Award
that year at Filmfest München.
Jean-Marc Barr can also be seen in a
leading role at this year's festival in
the adaptation of Jack-Kerouac's "Big
Sur."
Luis Miñarro is one of Europe's
most important independent producers. His
co-production, of Apichatpong "Uncle
Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" won
the Golden Palm in Cannes in 2010. In
2009, Luis Miñarro made his
directing debut. This year, Filmfest is
showing his latest production "El Muerto Y
Ser Feliz" in the International
Independents section.
This year's CineVision section includes a
new interpretation of Snow White
("Blancanieves"), a Mexican zombie film
("Halley"), a film from New York about a
first love that turns into an obsession
("It Felt Like Love"), a Slovakian-Czech
co-production about a skinhead trying to
come to terms with his identity ("My Dog
Killer") and a Chinese love story before,
during and after the Cultural Revolution
("The Love Songs of Tiedan").
Sponsor and donator of the CineVision
Award and its ¤12,000 prize money
since 2012 is Berlin-based Senator Film.
The award goes to the Best International
Newcomer Film. Helge Sasse, Chairman of
the Board of Senator Entertainment AG: "We
look forward once again to giving exciting
young directors a platform that showcases
their outstanding and innovative
work."
The 2013 CineVision Award ceremony takes
place on Friday, July 5, in the Bavarian
Parliament.
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From Germs, and Genes- Comes Patent.
Natural Genetic from The US Supreme Court
ruled on June 13th that
DNA is a
natural generic phenomenon, and cannot be
Patented. Unless the DNA has been produced
synethetically in a lab, it is not a
patentable invention. It was in 1980, the
high court helped trigger the biotech
revolution in medicine and agriculture--
when it ruled for the first time that a
living organism could be patented. That
decision upheld a patent for a bacteria
that could break down crude
oil.
106-Monsanto vs Seed Patent vs Farmer
Bowman, it was in mid-May (13th) - that a
Farmer lost his seed patent legal action
against the big
corporation.
The USA Supreme Court sides with Monsanto
over use of genetically modified
soybeans.
Monsanto Co. and other companies that
patent seeds may prohibit farmers from
growing a second crop from their
genetically modified seeds, the Supreme
Court ruled unanimously 9 to 0 for the new
P&A for seed
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Los Angeles Int'l Airport
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By Gary Sunkin
On Saturday
morning, June 22, officials, joined by Tom
Bradley family members, will rededicate
the newly refurbished 10-foot-tall Tom
Bradley bronze bust that welcomes
departing passengers as part of a
remodeled terminal entry; and nearly
12,000 Angelenos will participate in LAX
Appreciation Day, a community open
house.
Mayor Villaraigosa and LAX officials
unveiled new aircraft gates in the Tom
Bradley International Terminal (TBIT). The
gates feature laser-based docking
technology and computerized boarding
bridges to accomodate larger aircraft like
the Boeing 747-8 and Airbus 380.
Antonio R. Villaraigosa, in one of his
last functions as mayor of LA, was joined
by airport officials, business leaders,
local celebrity chefs, and media from
around the world to launch a series of
unique events designed to showcase Los
Angeles International Airport (LAX) and
create global excitement for the New Tom
Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) at
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
before construction is completed later
this year.
Thursday night Westfield hosted a Preview
Gala where media, industry leaders, travel
and tourism stakeholders, and the many
project partners and individuals that
helped bringing the new terminal to
fruition gathered.
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The preview events provided a sneak peek
of the South Concourse Aircraft Gate Areas
and 150,000-square-foot Great Hall, which
will soon impress passengers from around
the world with more than 60 premier dining
and luxury retail shops &endash; including
22 local L.A. brands &endash; and
world-class amenities. A highlight
of the New TBIT is one of the most
advanced multimedia Integrated
Environmental Media Systems (IEMS) at a
North American airport, designed to create
an unprecedented passenger experience and
a non-aeronautical revenue source for
LAX.
The Preview Gala featured the grand
premiere of the 72-foot-tall digital Time
Tower, a soaring interactive media
structure with changing clock faces that
is one of the most significant elements of
the state-of-the-art IEMS. The
Hollywood Scoring Orchestra will provide a
once-in-a-lifetime musical experience with
the debut of an original symphonic
overture, Portale &endash; A Symphonic
Poem, especially composed by Emmanuel
Fratianni and Laurie Robinson and
commissioned by Westfield. The piece
celebrates the New TBIT and will be
dedicated to the people of Los
Angeles. The performing ensemble of
70 will feature special performances by
the International Children's Choir,
multi-ethnic percussionists, and
world-renowned soloists.
The New TBIT is considered the crown jewel
of the $4.1-billion LAX Capital
Improvements Program-Phase 1, the largest
public works project in the history of the
City of Los Angeles.
The New TBIT Project is creating nearly
4,000 construction-related jobs during the
project's five-year schedule and nearly
2,000 permanent concession jobs when the
terminal begins operations. The
facilities previewed today are expected to
become operational later this year
following comprehensive systems testing
throughout the terminal, as well as
training and certification of thousands of
airport and airline employees in operating
some of the new, state-of-the-art systems,
such as the new laser-based, automated
passenger boarding bridges and aircraft
docking systems.
While renowned for being a hub of high
technology, and for the glamour associated
with Hollywood, Los Angeles &endash; named
for the Queen of Angels &endash;
established itself on California's
southwest coast, grew and prospered
because of its strategic geography and
captivating seascape.
With increased passenger volumes expected
at Los Angeles International Airport, Los
Angeles World Airports (LAWA), along with
city officials, selected Fentress
Architects in association with HNTB to
develop a design concept for the
modernization of LAX &endash; transforming
the airport with a design that both
dramatically enhances the passenger
experience and re-establishes it as a
modern U.S. gateway in a competitive
global market.
The dynamic new design for LAX is inspired
by the Pacific Ocean on LAX's west side,
with roof tops flowing as rhythmic waves
breaking on the shore. Flat-seam stainless
steel stretches over the column-free
structure, creating an architectural
vocabulary that unifies the entire airport
with a cohesive theme.
The design also honors the iconic Theme
Building which ushered in the Jet Age at
LAX when designed in 1961. The long
association of LAX with the historic
building and its parabolic arches would
gracefully celebrated with two arched
bridges that increase in size toward the
West, just as planes take off and gain
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Bob Thompson made music with audacious
sound. The
composer and arranger passed away
May 21 in a
Los Angeles. (1924-2013)
Thompson was one
of the foremost composers and arrangers
and is most famous for what came to be
known as the arranger for the Sonny
Bono-Troy Cory Speciatly Record Lable
Productions. His Space Age pop, or "Space
Age bachelor pad" music
&endash;
tunes that allowed hi-fi buffs to turn the
lights down low, mix the perfect martini
and set the mood.
But
his music was more than mood music. The
writer and arranger provided the hi-fi
soundtrack for a
swinging-bachelor
lifestyle coming of age in the late1950s.
His one-of-a-kind discs feature a singular
sound that evokes cocktail glasses,
swingin' guys and gals, and all-night
mischief. His music was often a spin on
old jazz standards, equipping them with
hip choral sounds and ping-ponging stereo
sound effects. Thompson's 1960 album, "The
Sound of Speed," was a tribute to fast
living, with orchestral riffs inspired by
jet engines, race cars.
Bob's
career spanned 40 years and garnered a
Grammy Nomination, with 100s of TV
commercials plus stints as composer or
arranger for Bing Crosby, Rosemary
Clooney, Ruth Olay, and Judy Garland to
name a few. Along the way he created Just
for Kicks, On the Rocks, MMM Nice! and The
Sound of Speed.
Troy
Cory
(TVI's
iPublisher) looking back at his time at
Specialty Records remembers Bob Thompson
as one of the best. Thompson was the
arranger and conductor on Troy Cory's
recordings, Down on the Beach and
Just One More Chance.
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Branson In The News of
Late
Virgin
Group Boss on decriminalizing
drugs.
Would it be a vote loser? He says, No!
Sir
Richard Branson, founder and chairman of
Virgin Group, has called on politicians to
"be braver" on drugs policy, saying they
are wrong to believe decriminalization
would be a vote-loser. His to do video
address at the opening of the
International Harm
Reduction
Conference (IHRC) in Vilnius,
Lithuania.
Speaking
on the eve of a major international drugs
conference, Branson said that, if
politicians acted on what they really
believed rather than following a Daily
Mail agenda, they could reduce a
"ballooning" prison population exacerbated
by excessive numbers of convictions for
low-level drugs offenses.
Branson, said recent comments from Latin
American leaders that the "war on drugs"
had failed marked a "sea change" among
politicians in that region and should spur
those in the UK and elsewhere into action.
He is to give a video address at the
opening of the International Harm
Reduction Conference (IHRC) in Vilnius,
Lithuania.
Stepping up his outspoken campaign since
becoming a member of the Global Commission
on Drugs more than two years ago, Branson
said: "People are languishing in prisons
and lives are wasted. When I speak to
politicians individually, I've found no
one who disagrees. I would say that, if a
party really took on the decriminalization
issue and went for it, they would not lose
votes. There is an economic case for
investment in harm reduction. It has been
proven in other countries that treating
drug addiction as a health issue, not
criminalizing it, benefits society as a
whole."
Branson's
remarks come just days before a UK charity
and national centre of expertise on drugs
and drugs law, is to publish a report
detailing the disproportionate impact of
policing policies on black and ethnic
minority communities. Initial findings
from the report, seen by the
Observer, show that in 2009-10 nearly
550,000 people in England and Wales were
stopped and searched by police for drugs,
but just 7% of them were arrested. It also
reveals that black people are six times
more likely to be stopped and searched for
a drugs offense than white people.
With
signs of drugs policy reform gaining
momentum, Branson was a co-signatory to an
open letter from a coalition of
scientists, celebrities and politicians
calling for the government to overhaul
drugs legislation. Branson and other
signatories said the government's approach
to drugs policy "does little to address
the root causes of addiction and
pointlessly criminalizes people." The
group called for an independent review of
the effectiveness of the Misuse of Drugs
Act 1971.
However, many drugs experts, including a
number attending the International Harm
Reduction Conference, argue that, amid the
recent high-profile calls for drugs
liberalization and reform to criminal
justice, it is essential that the broader
implications of current drugs policies on
public health should also be a top
priority. Executive director of the
International Drug Policy Consortium, Ann
Fordham pointed out, that where drugs
policies are most draconian public health
risks are greatest.
Fordham
emphasized that governments could not
afford to be complacent. In the UK, where
harm-reduction strategies such as needle
exchanges have helped to reduce rates of
HIV infection among injecting drug users
to 1%, the continued "criminalization" of
people for personal use undermined the
successes, she said.
"The fact is that, if we look at the
people most affected by a punitive
approach to drugs, it is the most
marginalized and the poor; it is people
from ethnic minority groups. They are the
ones who end up going to prison."
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Justin
Bieber is the latest to sign up to go into
space on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic
mission. Bieber has paid $250,000 to be
part of Branson's space-project, which
will see flights to the edge of the
earth's atmosphere where the civvie
passengers get to experience
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Branson and his philanthropy -
Collaboration with
Charitybuzz
Check out
a
day in the life of Richard Branson.
Now, business
like-minded humanitarians can get a taste
of the nightlife alongside the
trendsetting entrepreneur -- all in
support of charity.
The UK's fourth richest person is
auctioning off a night of partying at a
surprise location through Charitybuzz,
which will benefit
DoSomething.org.
Branson's
collaboration with Charitybuzz and
DoSomething marks a continuation of his
ongoing philanthropic involvement with
nonprofits, which is the motivating force
behind his business dealings, he says. In
May, Branson told the Montreal Gazette
that, "money in itself is not that
interesting." What is interesting about
money, he told the news outlet, is how it
allows people to "make a difference in the
world."
Early this year, the business tycoon
joined the Giving Pledge, through which he
will donate half of his $4.6 billion
fortune to charity. His offer to party
with the highest bidder is not surprising
given his previous eccentric methods of
philanthropy, such as his recent stint
dressing up as an air hostess on AirAsia.
The effort helped raise money for an
Australian foundation for hospitalized
children, the Associated Press
reported.
Branson
joins several other celebrities in support
of Charitybuzz's efforts, including
President Clinton, Michael Jordan, Seth
MacFarlane, Eddie Vedder, Paul McCartney,
and Ozzy Osbourne. Charitybuzz has
recently carried out notable philanthropic
campaigns, including an auction to get
coffee with Apple CEO, Tim Cook.
In April, Cook partnered up with
Charitybuzz to raise money for the RFK
Center for Justice and Human Rights in an
auction where participants bid over an
opportunity to grab coffee with him. Last
month, Cook's efforts raised $610,000.
Bidding for the Branson auction closed
June 11.
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CANNES, May
15, 2013 -- Once a year, "the entire world
comes together at Cannes."
Steven
Spielberg introducing this year's
nine-person Cannes Film Festival jury at
the opening press conference said, "We're
always sitting in personal private
judgment of the films we see."
Therefore it was time, to take it public
and accept the film festival's offer to
serve as the main competition jury
president, an offer made several times in
the past, though his work schedule never
permitted it, he said.
Also serving as jurors are actors Nicole
Kidman, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Auteuil,
Vidaya Balan and directors Cristian
Mungiu, Naomi Kawasi, Lynn Ramsey and
twice Academy Award Winner Ang Lee. The
jury selects the winners for acting,
screenplay, direction and, honored with
the Palme d'Or, the award given the film
of the year. Last year's Palme winner was
Michael Haneke's "Amour."
Spielberg noted that it's apples and
oranges to assess movies designed to get
"as many people into the theaters as
possible" by the same criteria as films
compelled by more adventurous impulses.
"Honesty" and "courage": those will be the
key attributes in the competition titles
as viewed by Spielberg's fellow juror,
director Cristian Mungiu, who won the
Palme in 2007, for "4 Months, 3 Weeks and
2 Days."
Spielberg last came to the Croisette in
2008 for the world premier of "Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal
Skull." Released to generally
positive reviews, it it was also a
financial success, grossing over $786
million worldwide.
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Palm
D'Or goes to the
French
The
hometown favorite won big time at the
Festival de Cannes as France's Blue Is
the Warmest Color walked off with the
Palme d'Or. Jury president Steven
Spielberg announced in a highly unusual
step, that the prize was given not only to
director Abdellatif Kechiche, as
considered traditional, but to co-stars
Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa
Seydoux as well. Both actresses were in
tears by the time they reached the
stage.
The
sexually explicit story of a young woman
discovering desire and herself, Blue was
the great favorite of French critics but
divided English speakers, who called it
everything from voyeuristic to a
three-hour Sundance movie in French.
The
film, whose French title is La Vie
d'Adèle, will be distributed in
the US by IFC's Sundance Selects.
Kechiche's movie displays that same degree
of intimacy with his actresses in the
scenes when they have their clothes on.
For the younger, fragile teen at the
center of the plot -- also named
Adéle -- blue-haired art student
Emma (Seydoux) provides a gateway to
experiences far beyond the limitations of
her conservative social circle. Some of
the tender moments make the explicit
scenes especially noteworthy:
Kechiche's
film plays to the possibilities of
uncensored storytelling that ignores
traditional boundaries without playing for
shock value. It's a tender romance and
undoubtedly one of the best movies about
nascent adulthood in recent years.
Not
Playing it Safe
Spielberg
himself makes no apologies about directing
movies aimed at the largest audiences
possible, but as a unit, the Cannes jurors
did a fine job highlighting the merits of
not playing it safe. This was evident not
only in the selection of the winners but
the snubs: -- Steven Soderbergh's Liberace
biopic "Behind the Candelabra" won plenty
of accolades for Michael Douglas'
performance, but ultimately amounted to a
giddy by-the-numbers treatment of the
show-biz icon -- however, a skillfully
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By Josie
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A h h h . . . Springtime in
Cannes
where mild breezes blow as the
warm Mediterranean sun smiles over this
beautiful spot on the Cote d'Azur. There
you can feel a timeless sensuality,
assuaging a nostalgia for the
Mediterranean which since as far back as
the 16th century has been a constant theme
in many a Northern European's life.
"Now
give us lands where the olives grow,"
Cried the North to the South, "Where the
sun with a golden mouth can blow blue
bubbles of grapes down the vineyard row!"
Cried the North to the South. (to borrow a
phrase from the English writer Elizabeth
Barret Browning).
"Cannes,"
wrote Charles Lentheric, the indispensable
and erudite historian of maritime
Provence, in 1880, "is a town where you
feel no need to work," and "where the
inhabitants were not interested in the
world that lay beyond their shady gardens,
or the sheltered balconies of their
hotels."
Now
the world has come to Cannes, chosen it to
be their Mediterranean queen for its
annual events, and when you stroll along
the Croisette on some warm April day you
will hardly share Mr. Lenteric's
sentiments. Voila! Cannes! It has emerged
truly cosmopolitan.
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Los Angeles Film Fest, June 13 -
26
The
L.A. Film Fest in its 19th year is
orgainzed by Film Indepndent, and takes
place June 12-23, in the entertainment
capital of the world, mostly downtown Los
Angeles with its main venue, the 14-screen
Regal cinemas at L.A. LIVE.
The Los Angeles Fest comes after the
annual festival rounds of Sundance,
Berlin, and Cannes but before the fall
events that include Telluride, Venice,
Toronto, New York and the local AFI
Fest.
With a pre-fest screening of 'Man of
Steel' followed by Pedro
Almodóvar's airplane farce 'I'm So
Excited,' the event opens this week with a
broad selection of films. Over 200 feature
films, shorts and music videos from over
40 countries will be shown.
This year LAFF has a strong selection of
films from the Middle East, including a
number directed by women, as well as a
more local focus of films set in Los
Angeles.
The festival also has a particularly
strong selection of conversations, panels
and events that take audiences beyond just
watching movies.
"Both for the filmmakers and for the
audience it makes for a richer
experience," said David Ansen, artistic
director of the festival. "It's not just
going to the movies. You're really getting
a taste of what the filmmaking process is
like."
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By
Gary Sunkin
Walt
Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort
will kick off a Monstrous Summer by
keeping three theme parks open for 24
hours nonstop on Memorial Day Weekend, the
traditional start of the family travel
season.
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Mickey Mouse and a cast
of beloved Disney characters will embark
on a series of musical adventures through
the magical powers of a sorcerer's map in
"Mickey and the Magical Map," the all-new
live show coming to the Fantasyland
Theatre in Disneyland Park May 25,
scheduled for five daily performances.
Created by Disney Creative Entertainment,
"Mickey and the Magical Map" was conceived
for children of all ages and represents
the return of Disney storytelling to the
newly refurbished Fantasyland Theatre, a
venue that merges the tradition of live
outdoor performances with theatrical
technology. Performed in the most magical
of lands, Fantasyland, the new show
reveals a mischievous Mickey Mouse, in his
timeless role as the sorcerer's
apprentice.
Fantasyland Theatre, a classic Disneyland
venue, was inspired by the original
Fantasyland Theater (former spelling)
which showed Disney cartoons and
Mouseketeer footage from 1955 to
1964. The current theatre debuted in
1985 as Videopolis, a dance location,
which quickly drew crowds for stage
productions including "One Man's Dream,"
"Dick Tracy Starring in Diamond Double
Cross," "Mickey's Nutcracker," and one of
Disney's first stage productions of
"Beauty and the Beast."
In 1995, the venue was renamed Fantasyland
Theatre with the debut of "The Spirit of
Pocahontas." "Animazement -- The
Musical" enjoyed a popular three-year run
and "Snow White--An Enchanting Musical"
played for two years. The theatre was then
converted to an area where guests could
meet Disney Princesses.
President of the Disneyland Resort,
Michael Colglazier, said "We're thrilled
to debut our captivating new show 'Mickey
and the Magical Map' and to invite guests
to experience Fantasy Faire, a new themed
area with Disney Princess encounters and
two live shows based on favorite princess
stories," The show also sends Mickey Mouse
on a theatrical adventure and takes the
audience to India, China, Virginia, New
Orleans, Hawaii, and "Under the Sea."
"Mickey and the Magical Map" has writing
by Carolyn Gardner and is directed by
Tracy Halas. The production designer
is Steve Bass; the creative director is
Sylvia Hase; the music is produced by
Bruce Healey, supervised and arranged by
Timothy Williams and supervised by Matt
Walker. The show producer is Ray
Coble.
"Mickey and the Magical Map, will be a
highlight of 2013 at the Disneyland
Resort, which also features recent
additions such as princess encounters in
the new Fantasy Faire in Disneyland, and
the spectacular new Cars Land and Buena
Vista Street in the expanded Disney
California Adventure Park.
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Politics,
Taxes, Security, Shelter,
Education,
Telecommunication and the Department
of Defense are directly linked to Arts and
Science's lobbying influences. The
mechanics of lobbying and its link to big
business and telecommunications are
featured in this section, along with
features about Criminal and Civil
Justice.
It
was TVI Magazine's 1990 issue, that first
published the prediction that Government
will
get smaller, but police agencies will get
bigger. The powers relinquished to Home
Security and Police agencies will make the
Gestapo group look like pikers. Hollywood
is here to stay. It's good for politics
and a good war movie or two!
Consumer
and manufacturing advocates have sparked
actions against copyright protections laws
and holders, on the grounds that:
(1) -
if the copyright leads to reduce
competition;
(2) -
the copyright creates higher prices to the
consumer, and if;
(3) -
the copyright advances laws that
criminalizes the consumer and competition.
Experts say that both Copyright and
Trademark regulations should parallel the
Patent laws in that -- U.S. antitrust
officials should be given the power to
oppose and bring antitrust actions against
violators.
Today's
Puzzle:
Is it true that a new federal health
program is going to be operated and
financed by the Department of Defense?
Secondly,
is it true that the FCC, USPO and/or the
CIA are financing the Internet and
WiTEL?
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106
TVI- The NBS Wireless
TelePhone®©
Trust"
--
In another move to
beef up its Worldwide rights to its NBS
Radio intellectual property rights . . .
offerings, NbsWitel.com has
contracted
with the WebUsersGuild.com to unify VoIP
and WiTEL mobile users.
"Of course, that includes any/and
all existing WiTEL TeleKey Area codes
system®© users," says Mark
Anderson of PSI International. "Today,
we're happy to announce that our PSI team
is joining the WebUsersGuild.com group
where we'll have the opportunity to build
amazing consumer contacts for over
5-Billion mobile users around the globe."
The WebUsersGuild.com has become a global
problem of sorts with the TeleCom
industry.
The various
copyrights, trademarks, and drawings used
within its May 12, 1908 Patent . . .
Wireless Telephone®©
experience, have all become a father of
sorts for the shorthand text that has
created product names like,
WiTEL®©,
iPhone®©;
cellPhone®©.
It was just recently that
the NBS Trust organization,
(wirelesstelephone.org), negotiated with a
Universal City firm to lease a segment of
its Area Code numbers -- for an
undisclosed sum. See
115-
Digital Hollywood -
April
30 - May 3, Marina Del
Rey.
The NBS Wired-Wireless
Telephone®© organization --
has been a moniker to the Wireless
industry for over ten decades. With
Wireless Telephone®©
namesakes like, WiTEL®©,
iPhone®©, and the
cellPhone®©, how could you
lose. It's been a deal to steal since its
first demonstrations and ®©
registrations by members of the NBS-TCS
family -- commencing in 1892, 1898, 1902,
1907 through 2012.
"People do what they want," said
Wikipedia's founder, at a 2010 Digital
Hollywood Spring keynote address. "There
is no master plan what people are
interested in." The question is, how can
Wiki partner with people to who have a
symbiotic realationship. Look at the Wiki
model for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Stubblefield.
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the Movie" -- (Library of
Congress: Catalog#
2012906001)
The www.webusersguild.com, announced the
acquisition to buy sections of its PSI
collections. (See 106-
NBSWiTEL Bailout For Its EMW Wireless
Carriers, below). The Guild
said the deal will allow it to put the
iconic "NBS Radio Trust" Witel logo on
goods, products, and services as well as
build "NBS Radio Trust" information clouds
around the world.
FOR THE RECORD:
--
Not included in the
deal are its NBS Asian TeleCom telephonic
properties.
"This is a brand of
Anti-ID Theft benefits with a lot of
equity, not just in China, but around the
world," said Troy Cory-Stubblefield,
president and CEO of NBS. Our
ChinaExo2000/com affiliates will be
responsible for expanding the brand. He
declined to reveal the price tag, but
said, "I think we will see north of $300
million in revenue over the next three
years." http://www.webusersguild.com.
http://www.chinaexpo2000.com.
Webusersguild.com is a media firm that has
a webusers membership division.
"What
"NBS Radio Trust" and his family have done
is maintain the Wireless Telephone Company
of America enterprise that has always been
about technology and innovation and
providing something unique to the savvy
wireless telephone customer," said Mark
Anderson, of pacificsunrise.org. " So we
have an opportunity to take the "NBS Radio
Trust" brands worldwide."
Anderson said that
although possible new commercial uses for
our new patent pending Anti-ID Theft
program would reflect local software
developers and wireless nbsWiTEL.com
merchandise, the established international
country code system, will keep with what
Troy Cory calls "a kind of a Kentucky
southern comfort feeling." "That's what
NBS smart90.com is all about -- concept.
You can go into any smart90.com kudoad
link Click a GoogleAd, or Amazon, and you
can buy everything from shoes to
diamonds."
Cory-Stubblefield,
founded the family-run Hollywood-based
"NBS Radio Trust" - and the Signet Credit
Card Group in 1968.
Troy, who heads the
Trust, said: "We've have maintained
WiTEL®© connections for
over 100 years, so it was the right time
to start our NBS100.com collection
efforts. We weren't out searching for
Wireless Telephone®©"
users, it just worked out that
way.""We're
in good hands," says Cory. "I'm extremely
excited about the FCC's efforts in setting
the record straight, and the possibilities
are endless."
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SEE the
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and the SEE:
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Campus - April 21st -
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VONAGE?
The best way to predict the future is ...
"TO INVENT IT ! . . . We all want
everything to be free," says any student
of reality. "But for any business, like
any household to be successful, income has
to be higher than the monthly iPhone
bill."
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Birthplace of the Wireless
Telephone®©,
and its NBS Wireless
Telephone®© registered
service marks were invented, developed, in
Murray, Kentucky, commencing in 1892, and
granted patent in 1908.
The
NBS Wireless Telephone®©
organization, founded in Murray, Kentucky,
by Nathan B. Stubblefield doesn't
manufacture the present-day Wireless
Telephone®© . . . "We've
passed that onto the iPhone and
CellPhones organizations," says
Troy Cory-Stubblefield. GoTo
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It was just recently that the NBS Trust
organization, (wirelesstelephone.org),
negotiated with a Universal City firm to
lease a segment of its Area Code numbers
-- for an undisclosed sum. See
115-
Digital Hollywood -
April
30 - May 3, Marina Del
Rey.
The
NBS Wired-Wireless
Telephone®© organization --
has been a moniker to the Wireless
industry for over ten decades. With
Wireless Telephone®©
namesakes like, WiTEL®©,
iPhone®©, and the
cellPhone®©, how could you
lose. It's been a deal to steal since its
first demonstrations and ®©
registrations by members of the NBS-TCS
family -- commencing in 1892, 1898, 1902,
1907 through 2012.
"People do what
they want," said Wikipedia's founder, at a
2010 Digital Hollywood Spring keynote
address. "There is no master plan what
people are interested in." The question
is, how can Wiki partner with people to
who have a symbiotic realationship. Look
at the Wiki model for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Stubblefield.
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FCC's Genachowski Steps
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106- The Safe Harbor Legal LoopHole:
YouTube vs
Viacom.
A
federal New York federal judge ruled on
April 18, 2013, that: YouTube had not
violated Viacom's copyright even though
users of the popular online site were
allowed to post unauthorized video clips
from some of Viacom's most popular shows,
including Comedy Central's "The Daily Show
with Jon Stewart" and Nickelodeon's
"SpongeBob
SquarePants."
After
winning the big YouTube vs Viacom
copyright legal action between search
engine Google, its video website YouTube
has scored another huge victory in the
long-running claims over copyright
infringement brought by television giant
Viacom Inc.
After
the judgement, Viacom vowed to appeal once
again.
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Supreme Court sides with book reseller in
copyright ruling
The Supreme Court gave foreign buyers of
books, video discs and other copyrighted
works a right to resell them in the United
States, without permission of the
copyright owner, giving discount retailers
a victory and the entertainment industry a
setback.
The 6-3 decision Tuesday came in the case
of Supap Kirtsaeng, a USC graduate student
from Thailand who figured he could earn
money for his education by buying low-cost
textbooks in his native country and
reselling them in the United States.
John Wiley & Sons, a textbook
publisher, sued him over copyright
infringement and won $600,000 in damages
from a New York jury. Kirtsaeng was
ordered to turn over his golf clubs,
computer and printer as partial
payment.
But in Tuesday's decision, the Supreme
Court found the Thai student's view of
U.S. copyright law "more persuasive" than
the publishing industry's, and it threw
out the verdict against him.
In doing so, the justices adopted a
version of ebay's motto: "If you bought
it, you own it, and you have a right to
sell it."
Judges
had been divided over whether --
copyright
protection extended to works that were
lawfully made and sold abroad, but were
imported for resale in the United States.
One part of the law says the U.S.
copyright holder has an "exclusive right
to distribute copies" in the U.S.
It is unclear how the movie, music or
video game industries will be affected by
the high court's decision, as more
entertainment content is sold
digitally.
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WUG4-Smart90
reported that Yahoo Inc in talks to buy
YouTube-like video site "Dailymotion" --
is in talks with France Telecom to buy a
majority stake in Dailymotion, an online
video site popular in Europe that has been
scouting for a U.S. partner to take on
Google Inc.'s YouTube.
Google
reports that the YouTube deal represents a
major growth opportunity for the Internet
gian
Google has said YouTube represents a major
growth opportunity for the Internet
giant.
Executive Marissa Maye reported that if
the deal is excepted, it would be first
major acquisition since taking over Yahoo
last summer.
Under the ownership structure being
discussed, Yahoo could buy as much as 75%
of Dailymotion with the possibility of
buying the rest of the site at a later
date, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The deal would value Dailymotion at around
$300 million.
Spokespeople for Yahoo and France Telecom
declined to comment.
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106- The limits of copyright
law.
-- The Supreme Court has forcefully
declared --
that copyright law does not extend to
prohibiting
the resale of books bought overseas.
March - 2013 was the month that
--
Supap
Kirtsaeng was a Thai student in the United
States who helped finance his education
(and then some) by reselling textbooks
that family members bought for a low price
in Thailand. Textbook publisher John Wiley
& Sons sued Kirtsaeng for copyright
infringement in 2008, citing a federal ban
on importing copyrighted goods without the
copyright holder's permission. Lower
courts agreed with Wiley, opining that the
"first sale" doctrine -- a buyer's right
to sell, lend, rent or give away a
lawfully purchased copy of a copyrighted
work.
But
that did not apply to foreign-made
products --
even if they'd been manufactured under
contract with the copyright holder.
On
Tuesday, the Supreme Court overturned
--
those decisions in a forceful
declaration of the limits of copyright
law.
The justices ruled, 6 to 3, that the
first-sale doctrine applies no matter
where a copy is made, as long as it's done
in accordance with U.S. law. The decision
in Kirtsaeng vs. John Wiley & Sons
provides a welcome clarification that
Americans are free to redistribute the
copies they own that were legally made and
sold overseas, just as they are with the
copies they buy in the United States.
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Tradeout.
The book itself looks beyond the glossy
appeals.
As
tax deadline looms, ex-NPR chief Ken Stern
looks at how little donors understand
about the needs and the operations of even
the most prominent charities 'With Charity
for All' looks beyond the glossy
appeals.
Americans just love feeling philanthropic.
In any debate over cutting tax breaks in
the income tax system, the deduction for
charitable donations is always held sacred
-- even more than that other sacred cow,
the mortgage deduction.
It's a rare political leader who doesn't
bow to the role played by charitable
foundations in filling gaps left by
government services to the indigent, the
sick and the elderly, here in the United
States and around the globe. The
globe-trotting, tent-dwelling relief
worker, the doctor without borders, the
logistics expert getting food and medicine
to camps of war refugees -- all elicit
unique reverence from us armchair
empathizers in civilized lands.
So why, asks Ken Stern in his new book,
"With Charity for All," do we spend so
little time thinking about the charities
we give our billions to?
Stern is a veteran of the
nonprofit world --
having spent nine years running
National Public Radio, the nonprofit
organization with which most of us are
more familiar than any other. Thanks to
his experience and a wealth of further
research, "With Charity for All" makes
many important points about how little we
understand about the needs and the
operations of even the most prominent
global philanthropies. The book opens with
a telling anecdote about the American Red
Cross and its response to the disaster of
9/11.
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FCC's Genachowski Steps
Down
WASHINGTON --
After nearly four years on the job Julius
Genachowski, a former venture capitalist
and technology executive will step down in
the coming weeks as Chairman of the
Federal Communications Commission
(FCC).
Part of that
strategy included expanding access to
wireless spectrum, and the agency has
worked to try to lure broadcasters to give
up someof their airwaves in exchange for
money from the government's auction of
rights to use them to telecom
companies
Genachowski stated
his biggest accomplishment was focusing
the agency on expanding high-speed
Internet access. For example, he pushed
the FCC to make more public airwaves
available to deliver the Internet over
smartphones and other mobile devices.
Speculation
about Genachowski's
replacement
--
Among
them so far are Democratic FCC
Commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Jessica
Rosenworcel; Catherine J.K. Sandoval, a
member of the California Public Utilities
Commission; Karen Kornbluh, the U.S.
ambassador to the international
Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development; Lawrence Strickling, head of
the Commerce Department's National
Telecommunications and Information
Administration; and Washington, D.C.,
venture/ capitalist Tom Wheeler.
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It was just last week, (Nov 3rd, 2011)
--
that
Josie Cory & Margit
Seelos discussed the contributions of
their respective husbands musical talents
to the world. It was in the late 1970s
that found the two women pushing both
grown men to play Santa Claus, elves, and
create the musical scores for the
German/USA production film "Merry
Christmas;" and YouTube.com sequels:
"Just in the Nick of Time,"
starring Priscilla Cory, as
"Little Miss Santa," and featuring
the late German singer, Manuela.
The Movie itself was Produced by VRA
TelePlay Picture's, Josie Cory;
Bohemia Film's Williams Janovsky;
and ARD's Gábor Wagner.
The Feature Movie 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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101 St.
Nicholas, the Castle
Neuschwanstein,
and the music of Troy Cory and Ambros
Seelos
The vocals, sound tracks and string
section on the Munich Sound recordings
were provided by Troy Cory, Ambros Seelos,
and "The Munich Philharmonics." The piano
and musical arrangements were conducted by
Ambros Seelos and Sylvester
Levay. Several 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."
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Trust"
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In another move to
beef up its Worldwide rights to its NBS
Radio intellectual property rights . . .
offerings, NbsWitel.com has contracted
with the WebUsersGuild.com to unify VoIP
and WiTEL mobile users.
"Of course, that
includes any/and all existing WiTEL
TeleKey Area codes system®©
users," says Mark Anderson of PSI
International. "Today, we're happy to
announce that our PSI team is joining the
WebUsersGuild.com group where we'll have
the opportunity to build amazing consumer
contacts for over 5-Billion mobile users
around the globe." The WebUsersGuild.com
has become a global problem of
sorts with the
TeleCom industry.
The various
copyrights, trademarks, and drawings used
within its May 12, 1908 Patent . . .
Wireless Telephone®©
experience, have all become a father of
sorts for the shorthand text that has
created product names like,
WiTEL®©,
iPhone®©;
cellPhone®©.
The
www.webusersguild.com, announced the
acquisition to buy sections of its PSI
collections. (See 106-
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Carriers,
below). The Guild said the deal will allow
it to put the iconic "NBS Radio Trust"
Witel logo on goods, products, and
services as well as build "NBS Radio
Trust" information clouds around the
world.
FOR THE RECORD:
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_ "The Troy Cory Show -- the Wireless
Telephone Bequest73"
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Not included in the
deal are its NBS Asian TeleCom telephonic
properties.
"This is a brand of
Anti-ID Theft benefits with a lot of
equity, not just in China, but around the
world," said Troy Cory-Stubblefield,
president and CEO of NBS. Our
ChinaExo2000/com affiliates will be
responsible for expanding the brand. He
declined to reveal the price tag, but
said, "I think we will see north of $300
million in revenue over the next three
years." http://www.webusersguild.com.
http://www.chinaexpo2000.com.
Webusersguild.com is a media firm that has
a webusers membership division.
"What
"NBS Radio Trust" and his family have done
is maintain the Wireless Telephone Company
of America enterprise that has always been
about technology and innovation and
providing something unique to the savvy
wireless telephone customer," said Mark
Anderson, of pacificsunrise.org. " So we
have an opportunity to take the "NBS Radio
Trust" brands worldwide."
Anderson said that
although possible new commercial uses for
our new patent pending Anti-ID Theft
program would reflect local software
developers and wireless nbsWiTEL.com
merchandise, the established international
country code system, will keep with what
Troy Cory calls "a kind of a Kentucky
southern comfort feeling." "That's what
NBS smart90.com is all about -- concept.
You can go into any smart90.com kudoad
link Click a GoogleAd, or Amazon, and you
can buy everything from shoes to
diamonds."
Cory-Stubblefield,
founded the family-run Hollywood-based
"NBS Radio Trust" - and the Signet Credit
Card Group in 1968.
Troy, who heads the
Trust, said: "We've have maintained
WiTEL®© connections for
over 100 years, so it was the right time
to start our NBS100.com collection
efforts. We weren't out searching for
Wireless Telephone®©"
users, it just worked out that
way.""We're
in good hands," says Cory. "I'm extremely
excited about the FCC's efforts in setting
the record straight, and the possibilities
are endless."
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In
a threat to the 4th Amendment, law
enforcement is using location data as a
crime-fighting tool.
Concern
over mobile phone networks becoming
surveillance tools, the American Civil
Liberties Union recently asked hundreds of
local law enforcement agencies whether
they've tracked people's movements through
their cellphones. Most of those that
responded said they had, usually obtaining
the information from mobile phone
companies without a warrant. The practice
has become so routine, the ACLU found,
that phone companies are sending out
catalogs of monitoring services with
detailed price lists to police agencies.
The alarming findings should persuade
Congress to clarify that the government
can't follow someone electronically
without showing probable cause and
obtaining a warrants.
The Supreme Court has long held that the
4th Amendment guarantee against
unreasonable searches and
seizures
requires police to obtain a warrant if the
intrusion would violate a target's
"reasonable expectation of privacy."
Mobile
phone networks collect another -
type
of data that wire-line networks don't:
They register a phone's location
continuously as long as it's turned on,
even when it's not in use. Those records
can be exceptionally revealing; as the
ACLU put it, the potential insights range
"from which friends you're seeing to where
you go to the doctor to how often you go
to church."
The
fact that phone companies are collecting
fees
--
for providing this information raises
the additional question of whether their
financial interests trump their customers'
privacy interests. Looking for an answer,
Rep. Edward J. Markey recently asked the
major wireless carriers how much money
they've collected from law enforcement
agencies and whether they actively market
their information-gathering services.
A
growing number of courts have been
pushing
back
against the Justice Department's
permissive approach, but the rulings
haven't been uniform. Nor are there clear
rules to distinguish emergencies from
routine investigations, live tracking from
the examination of stored data, or
any
of the many other complexities. Rather
than trusting judges to sort it all out,
Congress should make it clear that the
protections that apply to phone
conversations also apply to location data.
No warrant, no tracking.
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106- NBSWiTEL Bailout For Its EMW Wireless
Carriers
Like a bank, we make loans.
But
unlike a bank, we're part of nbsWiTEL.com.
Before it became a DotCom company
we
were, and still are that same NBS Wireless
Telephone Company of America, established
in 1902, that invented and delveloped the
EMW technology that helps move, cure,
power and link the world with its nbsWiTEL
phone numbers.
So
not only can we provide smart financing,
we can also offer access to the insights
and bet practices of nbsWiTEL.com to make
that financing work harder. Chances are we
have the expertise you need to make your
company more competitive - and we're happy
to share. Stop just banking. And start
building. NbsWiTEL.com works.
NBS bailout of a few of
"nbsWiTEL.com Users --
may net an estimated $20.1-billion
profit for its Collection Group, PSI.
The estimate depends on the
timing - of the monthly payment of
the debt owed by each U.S.A. and FCC
approved carrier. nbsWiTEL.com said the
profit projection did not factor in the
nbsWiTEL.com cost to subsidize each
Carrier's "WiTEL debt during the last few
years; that cost was not calculated.
The nbsWiTEL.com -
forecast
followed the nbsWiTEL.com decision to
further reduce its ownership stake in its
Account Receivable Assets.
The
report came as nbsWiTEL.com this week
continued to wind down its stake in WiTEL
phone numbers handling its own Collection
deal it has with PSI, and its
Speedollars.com system.
Financial execs have a
forward-thinking strategy
WiTEL.com's arrangement with PSI's
Speedollars.com program will help kick off
the TeleKey Code systems
multimillion-dollar effort to iBond its
affiliates. The iBond concept is dubbed
"the Global Creative Investment Program"
-- to form ventures with its TeleCom
carriers, and other tech-savvy
entrepreneurs in the WiTEL.com
business.
Pacific
Sunrise International officials propose to
convert their Account Receivables into
iBonds, according to the documents, which
are included in the agenda
materials.
The proposal would allow the Franchised
Carriers to take a loan of up to 80% of
any and all cost for its $5.00 per month
per nbsWiTEL phone number assigned to its
WiTEL users . . . to help cover expenses.
It's unclear how the nbsWiTEL.com
Franchised Carrier would pay it back -- if
the loan and interest could not be repaid
within 10 years -- would nbsWiTEL.com or
the FCC be able to resell the Franchise by
Auction?
The iBond proposal is separate from the
$5.00 per monthly Invoice for each
WiTEL®© TeleKey area Code
phone number assigned to users. TeleCom
industry experts following the iBond
concept will give virtually all the
benefits to the WiTEL®©
TeleKey area Code user, with the blessings
of the FCC. The value of of each NBS WiTEL
franchise assigned 1-Million
WiTEL®© TeleKey area Code
phone number -- is valued at $5-Billion
each, according to
PSI.
Under the proposed lease, PSI's financial
backer would fund about $45-Billion in
Bank Guarantees. PSI is seeking control of
the U.S.A. operations for a total of 99
years.
The
iBond sale would reduce the nbsWiTEL.com
debt holdings to about $45 billion, with
another financial group holding an
additional $5 billion in complicated loans
secured by a bank guarantee.
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Trust"
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