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BURNS TO RIDE IN THE 127TH TOURNAMENT OF
ROSES® PARADE AS GRAND
MARSHAL PASADENA,
Calif. -- Award-winning filmmaker Ken
Burns, who has directed and produced some
of the most admired documentaries about
the history of the United States, was
selected as the 2016 Tournament of Roses
Grand Marshal.
Throughout his almost 40-year career
making documentary films, Burns, age 62,
has been honored with countless awards,
including 14 Emmy® Awards, two
Grammy® Awards and two Oscar®
nominations. Burns will ride in the 127th
Rose Parade® presented by Honda,
themed "Find Your Adventure" on January 1,
2016.
Tournament of Roses President, Mike
Matthiessen, made the announcement at a
public event at Tournament House in
Pasadena, during which the 2016 Grand
Marshal was revealed through a celebratory
documentary video created by Burns
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"Ken Burns is a legendary figure and a
great fit for this year's Rose Parade
theme, 'Find Your Adventure,'" Matthiessen
said. "We're so honored to have someone
like Ken, who has devoted his life to
telling the story of America, lead the
Rose Parade -- America's New Year
Celebration® -- that provides hope and
joy to millions of people around the
world."
The "Find Your Adventure" theme for the
2016 Rose Parade is a result of a unique
partnership between the Pasadena
Tournament of Roses and the U.S. National
Park Service, which will celebrate its
centennial in 2016. Among Burns's 2009
film, The National Parks: America's Best
Idea focused on the ideas and individuals
that helped propel the parks and the
National Park Service into existence. The
series was filmed over the course of more
than six years at some of the country's
most spectacular locales, from Acadia to
Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon
and the Everglades of Florida to the Gates
of the Arctic in Alaska. The National
Parks: America's Best Idea won Emmy®
Awards for "Outstanding Nonfiction Series"
and "Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction
Programming," as well as the 2010 CINE
Golden Eagle Award.
"The Rose Parade is an annual tradition
woven into the fabric of America, so it's
such an honor to be chosen as the Grand
Marshal," said Burns. "I've never been to
the Parade in person, so this will be a
new adventure for me. I'm looking forward
to sharing the experience with my family
and all the fans of the Rose Parade who
will be watching on New Year's Day."
Burns quickly became known for his style
of using archival footage and photographs
in documentary films, characterized by
slowly zooming in and panning to subjects
of interest -- deemed "The Ken Burns
Effect." Since the Academy Award nominated
Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Burns has gone on
to direct and produce some of the most
acclaimed historical documentaries ever
made, including The Civil War; Baseball;
Jazz; Statue of Liberty; Huey Long; Lewis
and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of
Discovery; Frank Lloyd Wright; Mark Twain;
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall
of Jack Johnson; The War; The Roosevelts:
An Intimate History; which have all aired
on PBS. For these accomplishments and
more, the Academy of Television Arts &
Sciences honored Burns with a Lifetime
Achievement Award at the News &
Documentary Emmy® Awards in September
2008. Future projects that Burns has in
the works include films on Jackie
Robinson, the Vietnam War, the history of
country music, Ernest Hemingway and the
history of stand-up comedy.
Burn's next film, Jackie Robinson, made
with his daughter Sarah Burns and her
husband David McMahon, will air on PBS on
April 11 and 12, 2016.
Burns was born in Brooklyn, New York, in
1953. He graduated from Hampshire College
in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1975 and
went on to be one of the co-founders of
Florentine Films.
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The
84th Hollywood Christmas
Parade The 84th Annual
Hollywood Christmas Parade celebrating The
Magic of Christmas featuring Marine Toys
for Tots Foundation, presented by
Associated Television International and
The City of Los Angeles, will be led this
year by renowned magicians and Parade
Grand Marshals Penn & Teller.
will be part of the 2015 parade making its
3.2 mile trek through the streets of
Hollywood, CA at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday,
November 29, 2015. The parade will
be hosted by Erik Estrada, Laura McKenzie,
Dean Cain and Montel Williams, with
special guest hosts Elizabeth Stanton and
Garrett Clayton.
The 84th Annual
Hollywood Christmas Parade will premiere
as a two-hour special on The CW Network on
Friday, December 11, 2015 at 8:00 p.m.
Eastern- Pacific/7:00 p.m. Central.
Long-time parade
partner Hallmark Channel will air multiple
runs of the parade beginning Saturday,
December 19, 2015 on their Hallmark Movies
& Mysteries channel.
The parade will
also air to more than one million American
servicemen and women worldwide on American
Forces Network during the holiday
season.
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Autoshow and Connected Car
Expo
Founded in 1907,
the Los Angeles Auto Show (LA Auto
Show®) is the first major North
American auto show of the season each
year.
The show's 2015
Press & Trade Days begin with the
Connected Car Expo (CCE) at the JW
Marriott at L.A. Live on Nov. 17, followed
by LA Auto Show's vehicle debuts
and press and trade events at the Los
Angeles Convention Center on Nov. 18 and
19.
The third
annual CCE, named "Best Car
Tech/Connected Car Trade Show" by AUTO
Connected Car News, is where
the new auto industry gets business
done, unveils groundbreaking products and
makes strategic announcements in
front of
media
from around the globe.
Following the Press and Trade Days LA
Auto Show will open to the public
from Nov. 20-29. LA Auto Show is
endorsed by the Greater L.A. New
Car Dealer Association and is
operated by ANSA Productions.
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Show ///
YouTube is selling $9.99-a-month
subscriptions that will enable U.S.
customers to watch almost everything
without ads, to download videos for
viewing offline and to keep content
playing on a smartphone or tablet even
when using a different app.
The service, called YouTube Red, offers
access to highly produced original shows
and movies that can't be found anywhere
else. Google Play streaming music will be
included too.
Ad revenue proved not enough to meet the
enormous expenses of serving billions of
videos every day -- even when most videos
are supplied by users for free. YouTube
could generate nearly $950 million
annually in new revenue if just 5% of U.S.
users signed up for the subscription.
Financial analysts who follow Alphabet
Inc., Google's parent company, say YouTube
could become a major profit engine. But
rivals, including Facebook, Snapchat and
Vimeo, are threatening its potential by
stealing away both video makers and
viewing time.
"YouTube and YouTube Red have the ability
to showcase a wide variety of content and
plans are to amplify and fund efforts of
these incredibly talented people, said
YouTube CBOl. "We have a built-in talent
system, which doesn't exist on any other
services."
YouTube Chief Business Officer Robert
Kyncl stated the "vast majority" of
YouTube's subscription revenue will go to
the YouTube Red content creators.
Certainly, some creators will lose out on
money from heavy viewers who might
encounter lots of ads or be willing to pay
more than $10 a month for a
subscription.
For that reason, YouTube considers its
approach different from Netflix's reliance
on traditional actors, and analysts say it
could be the video service of choice for
younger millennials and teenagers.
The question remains, "why do you need a
subscription if you don't mind dealing
with a few
ads?"
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SEC Passes Crowdfunding
Rules
The Securities and
Exchange Commission approved crowdfunding
rules that will make it easier for
start-ups to sell shares directly to the
masses.
The rules have been
years in the making after President Obama
signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups
Act in 2012, which authorized the
commission to write the crowdfunding
rules.
The
new rules and forms would be effective 180
days after they are published in the
Federal Register, except that the forms
enabling funding portals to register with
the Commission would be effective January
29, 2016.
The new rules under
the JOBS Act are starting to peel back
investment regulations that in some cases
date back to the Great Depression.
Those regulations
limited investments in most private
companies to so-called accredited
investors -- people who, today, make
$200,000 or more a year or are worth at
least $1 million -- and also blocked
companies from seeking investors publicly
without the use of a broker.
Howard Marks,
executive chairman of Start- Engine
Crowdfunding, a Santa Monica firm that
connects companies with private investors,
said he expects thousands, even tens of
thousands, of start-ups to try to raise
money under the new rules.
The rules approved
Oct. 30, allow people with annual incomes
or a net worth less than $100,000 to
invest a maximum of 5% of their yearly
income or net worth, or up to $2,000 if
that's greater. Those with higher incomes
can invest up to 10%. Investors generally
would not be able to sell shares for at
least a year.
They also exempt
firms raising $1 million or less in a year
from having to provide financial
statements audited by an independent
auditing firm, which can be an expensive
proposition. The idea is to open equity
crowdfunding to true start-ups, ones that
might not have the cash to pay an
auditor.
Larger companies
trying to raise as much as $50 million
have already been able to take investments
from non-accredited investors since this
summer. But to do so, companies have to
file regular reports and audited financial
statements with the SEC, much like big,
publicly traded companies.
Because of those
requirements, there's been limited
interest so far, and just a few dozen
firms have attempted such offerings.
All the
crowdfunding transactions would have to be
made through a portal registered with the
commission. Crowdfunding portals would
also have to comply with a number of rules
to monitor investors and businesses to
help reduce risk and fraud.
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"Kiss &
Tell"
Tell me your
problems and I'll tell you mine, is the
old approach to get some people to open up
and extract information.
Facebook is the world's most popular
social network. It is the company's 'Kiss
& Tell' mission to be the ultimate
placer for everybody to share just about
everything.
102- Insider Trading Hackers Arrested
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Downloaded more than 150,000 press
releases.
As some people wish
to connect on the Internet for positive
purposes there are those who embrace "Kiss
& Tell" criminality online.
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Green Light for AT&T's purchase of
DirecTV
The Federal
Communications Commission to vote on
proposed order to approve AT&T's
purchase of satellite service Direc TV, a
$49-billion deal that would place the
phone giant as the nation's largest
pay-television operator.
.
AT&T,
which traces its origins to the invention
of the telephone more than 130 years ago
by Alexander Graham Bell, pursued DirecTV
as a way to remain competitive in the
digital age. The combination was also
motivated, in part, by a recognition that
consumers increasingly are getting news
and entertainment on
smartphones and other devices.
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Troy Cory Show Kenny G "I've
Been Missin' You," Rosemont
Studios.
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Lowpower WiFi
Technology FUZHOU, CHINA
-- Rockchip, China's leading fabless
semiconductor company and mobile SoC
solution
provider, announced today that the new
Rockchip RKi6000 world's lowest power
Wi-Fi technology will be available for
smart home applications, including smart
plugs, intelligent access controls, smart
cameras, home appliances, wearables, and
more.
The
RKi6000's on-chip processor and memory
technology resolves this power issue,
reducing power consumption to make Wi-Fi
equal to Bluetooth LE, advancing the
adoption of IoT devices by breaking
Wi-Fi's power consumption
bottleneck.
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Troy
Cory Meets Wikipedia's co-founder of
Wikipedia
at Digital Hollywood, held at the
Loewes
Hotel, Santa Monica.
200904headline TVI Bylines /
Portrait of Wales by Joi Ito - Anyone who
knows Wikipedia will love Jimmy Wales.
"People do
what they want," said Wikipedia's founder
at the recent Digital Hollywood Spring
keynote address. "There is no master plan
what people are interested in." The
question is, how can we partner with
people to have a symbiotic realationship.
The Wiki model got good at traditional
core demographics. We see outside that
geek fandom world.
"We made it
ourselves!" is the core of the community
pride and any editing war can be solved
through conversation. Cool off a bit and
restart the
dialogue!FOR
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