ENTERTAINMENT News, Aug 03, 2011

Pinnacle Narrows Quarterly Net Loss Las Vegas Review-Journal Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:41 AM PDT Regional casino operator Pinnacle Entertainment narrowed its net loss in the second quarter, the Las Vegas-based company reported this morning. Pinnacle, which operates casinos primarily in the south and Midwest, said it lost $17.96 million in the quarter

Cedar Fair Announces 2011 Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:41 AM PDT Cedar Fair Entertainment Company , a leader in regional amusement parks, water parks and active entertainment will hold its quarterly conference call with investors to discuss second quarter earnings results on Wednesday, August 3 at 2:00 p.m.

Integrated Microwave Technologies, LLC (IMT) AchievesPrestigeous ISO 9001:2008 Certification PRWeb Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:40 AM PDT Integrated Microwave Technologies, LLC (IMT), a Business Unit within the Vitec Groupâs Videocom Division, and a leader in advanced digital microwave systems serving the Broadcast, Sports & Entertainmentand MAG (Military, Aerospace & Government) markets, today announced that it has achieved ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management certification for its Mt. Olive, New Jersey production facility. (PRWeb ...

Amelia Island's Great Southern Tailgate Cook-off Announces LiveEntertainment, New Features Marketwire Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:36 AM PDT AMELIA ISLAND, FL--(Marketwire - Aug 3, 2011) - The Amelia Island Convention & Visitors Bureau (AICVB) has announced the lip-smacking lineup for the Second Annual Great Southern Tailgate Cook-off , August 26-27, 2011. Visitors and residents will enjoy free entertainment and barbeque from some of the top competitors in the country during the family-friendly cook-off event.

For your entertainment...drunken bears? Pretoria News Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:35 AM PDT Kiev - Ukraine's Environment Minister Mykola Zlochevsky vowed on Wednesday to free all bears kept in restaurants for entertainmentpurposes and often forced to drink alcohol, Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.

Whalers Sports & Entertainment Welcomes Aetna as First "Whalers Alliance" Partner OurSports Central Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:34 AM PDT HARTFORD, Conn., August 3, 2011 - Aetna (NYSE: AET) and Whalers Sports & Entertainment today announced a new agreement making Aetna the first member of the "Whalers Alliance."

Loose Change Band returning to town Maryville Daily Forum Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:33 AM PDT Rocking the square last summer in a concert that kicked off the Maryville's Downtown Sounds entertainment series, Kansas City Loose Change Band will make a return appearance this month.

Centerplate Goes to Goal for World Football Challenge PR Newswire Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:29 AM PDT MIAMI, Aug. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Centerplate, the largest hospitality partner to North America's premier sports stadiums, entertainmentvenues and convention centers, will be serving as hospitality host at tonight's World Football Challenge match between FC Barcelona and Chivas de...

Escape from Planet Earth Cast Set Mania Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:27 AM PDT The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Rainmaker Entertainmentannounced today the all-star voice cast for ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH which includes Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Alba, Rob Corddry, James Gandolfini and Craig Robinson. The 3D animated family comedy is currently in full production. The announcement was made today by Donna Gigliotti, TWC&rsquo...

P&F Unveils the Ultimate Entertainment Solution for Consumers with New Built-in Gaming Pack Business Wire Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:22 AM PDT NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New Philips television pack gaming, Internet connectivity and unlimited access into a sleek entertainmentpackage.

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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Aug 03, 2011

Investors Lose Confidence in Big BRIC Banks Bloomberg Bank stocks in China are trading at lower valuations than global emerging-market indexes for the first time since 2006. The country faces a financial crisis with bad debt that may jump to 30 percent of total loans, Fitch Ratings said. ... See all stories on this topic »

Deal or no deal? Markets bracing for Monday BusinessWeek If there is no agreement to raise the nation's borrowing limit and defuse the building financial crisis, analysts said Sunday they expect stock markets across the globe to fall on Monday. In the US that would add to six straight days of stock losses. ... See all stories on this topic »

China Finds Vindication in US Debt Crisis China Digital Times It is the ultimate “too big to fail” global relationship, said Andy Rothman, an analyst in Shanghai for the investment bank CLSA. If Beijing even hinted that it might try to sell part of its American debt, “other countries might sell their dollar ... See all stories on this topic »

Bankers: How far can they fall? Telegraph.co.uk With the global economy burning down around them, politicians everywhere turned on the financial gushers, flooding the markets with cheap money to stimulate the economy. So they created the ideal trading conditions for any bank left standing, ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

Best ways to find income Telegraph.co.uk Dividend payouts increased by 27pc between April and June suggesting that many companies have got their balance sheets in order following the financial crisis and the subsequent recession. This is the biggest payout since the same period in 2008. ... See all stories on this topic »

Treasuries Fall as Debt-Ceiling Plan Reduces Threat to Economy San Francisco Chronicle Obama warned July 25 of a "deep economic crisis" without a compromise over the budget. Congressional leaders are racing to push through a plan to raise the debt limit by at least $2.1 trillion and slash government spending by a minimum $2.4 trillion ... See all stories on this topic »

Markets cheer US deal BusinessWorld Online While a downgrade would undermine the assets of banks, particularly those that hold US debt, he added that local financial institutions remained "well capitalized." Mr. Tetangco also downplayed the effects of a US downgrade on the country's $69 billion ... See all stories on this topic »

Unease in the East Sydney Morning Herald It has created a property boom based on borrowed money. If China's real estate is as geared as was the case in the US - which triggered the global financial crisis - or as Japan's, before it entered a decade-long recession, then watch out. ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

Newspaper Briefing, including 'Weak results to take toll on UK banks ... Proactive Investors UK US debt crisis: World faces a tense wait as 11th-hour deal edges closer: Financial markets and theglobal economy look set to be spared the catastrophe of an American default, as President Barack Obama and Congress edged closer to an 11th-hour deal on ... See all stories on this topic »

Will the euro die faster than the dollar? Equitymaster.com You see, over the weekend, the US Government just about managed to avert a situation that could have triggered a huge global economic crisis. But the solution is temporary. And the crisis could trigger again. You will recall. As we ended last week, ... See all stories on this topic »

Duty cut on diesel engines, gearboxes from Japan Chandigarh Tribune He adds that global financial institutions around the world holding AAA-rated US Treasury notes and bonds would see the value drop. Harvard University Economics Professor Jeffrey Miron says foreign creditors could start withdrawing money from US banks. ... See all stories on this topic »

Rich lister sets sights on Africa Taranaki Daily News He made his fortune through his Moscow-based Renaissance Group which offers financial,investment and management expertise in emerging markets. Russia's bond crash in 1996 almost broke Renaissance and again in 2008 the global financial crisis had the ... See all stories on this topic »

Investor pull to replace regulator push on CoCos: Credit Suisse's Ervin Risk.net But we expect the driver of growth to come increasingly from a different area: bank resolution reform. The Financial Stability Board (FSB) also issued a paper on July 19 that strongly advocates bail-in, an approach to resolution that avoids sovereign ... See all stories on this topic »

Deal in sight, global markets look up to Monday Seattle Post Intelligencer But traders have been reluctant to buy stocks on the good news fearing the debt wrangling in Washington might set off a financial crisis. Thomas Tzitzouris, head of fixed income research at Strategas Research Partners, said Sunday that to avoid a steep ... See all stories on this topic »

With a U.S. debt deal finally in sight, world markets look to Monday trading Daily Mail Companies have reported strong quarterly earnings in the past few weeks, but traders have been reluctant to buy stocks on the good news fearing the debt wrangling in Washington might set off a financial crisis. Thomas Tzitzouris, head of fixed income... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

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INVENTIONS News, Aug 03, 2011

Heavenly discoveries, earthly inventions CNN International By Meg Urry, Special to CNN The Hubble Space Telescope provided an image of a stellar jet in the Carina Nebula. Editor's note: Meg Urry is the Israel Munson professor of physics and astronomy and chair of the Department of Physics at Yale University. ... See all stories on this topic »

BRIGHT SPARKS dim future? [Dominion Post (Wellington, New Zealand)] TMC Net Where we falter is with the kind of complex inventions needed to really pull New Zealand out of the innovation doldrums. Buckley's science skills were distilled from childhood curiosity - as a kid in Napier he'd wait for the fertiliser truck to drive ... See all stories on this topic »

Big ideas paying off for local inventor Las Vegas Review-Journal Inventions, he said, just come to him. Take his latest one -- the Digital Photo Trophy. His inventionis the box-like base that can be programmed to show a stream of digital photos, as many as 100 in a loop, great for team shots and those special ... See all stories on this topic »

The new kind of size zero IBNLive.com BANGALORE: The mighty chocolate factory owner Willy Wonka's eccentric inventions have taken the nano world by storm. One strip of the prototype sample of Wonka's Magic Chewing Gum could deliver a full three course dinner. Imagine living in a world ... See all stories on this topic »

Radio show zeroes in on patent trolls Bizjournals.com (blog) It's also worth noting that Intellectual Ventures, based in Bellevue, Wash., disagrees with the characterization that it is a patent troll saying that it "invests both expertise and capital in the development of inventions." But in the story, ... See all stories on this topic »

Changing landscape has left many marketers napping Jakarta Post Perhaps the most influential of all inventions in modern history has been the telegraph. It will remain the most powerful influence on human life, across all its facets, for the foreseeable future. In the last 20 years, the mobile phone and the ... See all stories on this topic » Jakarta Post

The Bicycle Seat: Greater Cleveland Innovations Plain Dealer (blog) By Ellen Kleinerman, The Plain Dealer This story is part of a mid-summer series about lesser-known inventions, ideas and innovations that originated in Northeast Ohio. If you have suggestions for future stories, please e-mail your ideas to ... See all stories on this topic » Plain Dealer (blog)

Full Story.. Nigerian Observer I. OBODE Science got its huge boost in the early 18th century during the industrial revolution when so many innovations and inventions were introduced by some genius who dedicated their time energy, family affections and even (some of them) their lives ... See all stories on this topic »

Patents against prosperity The Economist (blog) If we are supposed to be encouraging only inventions that others in the field couldn't have made, we should be paying a lot more attention than we currently do to simultaneous invention. We should be issuing very few patents – surely not the 200000 per ... See all stories on this topic »

Real Life IRON MAN Gauntlet? Meet the Bodyguard Newsarama Popular Science magazine also lauded the device, naming it one of the top inventionsof 2011. "The real goal,” explains Brown, “is for it to be in the hands of civilians. They sell shotguns to civilians, why can't they have this? ... See all stories on this topic » Newsarama

Webb Explains the Mechanical Web-Shooters in 'Amazing Spider-Man' First Showing ... The Amazing Spider-Man that we've featured in the last month, Spidey has mechanical webshooters in this new iteration, harkening back to the original comics where Peter Parker built them as inventions of his own, a testament to his intellect. ... See all stories on this topic »

Association for Molecular Pathology v. United States Patent and Trademark ... Patent Docs Kalo Inoculant Co. as controlling Supreme Court precedent, citing Chakrabarty for the dicta that "the relevant distinction for purposes of § 101 is . . . between products of nature . . . and human-madeinventions." Chakrabarty, 447 US at 313. ... See all stories on this topic »

Dot Hill receives data-storage patents Boulder County Business Report By Beth Potter LONGMONT - Data-storage firm Dot Hill Systems Corp. received three US patents forinventions that protect computer data. Longmont-based Dot Hill (Nasdaq: HILL) received one patent for a computer software system that deletes old ... See all stories on this topic »

Clutch: Get a hold of style -- Shapewear slips into something comfortable Pittsburgh Post Gazette Modern-day shapewear is possibly the best of the recent inventions for woman. It targets the common trouble spots: the tummy, buttocks and thighs. But purchasing shapewear can be overwhelming because of the many brands and types. ... See all stories on this topic »

CRAIG BROWN: Huw Edwards' head and a truly chilling future Daily Mail Most readers of this column were born before the arrival of the internet and the mobile phone, and even before the greatest invention of them all, the suitcase-on-wheels. Nowadays, there are so many new inventions that it is hard to keep up with them. ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Russia to propose Yekaterinburg as Expo 2020 venue RIA Novosti Expo 2020 will showcase the world's latest scientific, technological and economic achievements andinventions. The Russian government has considered all bids and decided that Yekaterinburg and the city of Nizhny Novgorod on the Volga were the best ... See all stories on this topic »

A Prudent Method to Rebuild America Huffington Post (blog) Like many inventions of government, it began as a sleepy intermediary designed to both lower the cost of borrowing and increase availability by clothing Fannie Mae with the strongest credit standing in the world, namely that of the US government. ... See all stories on this topic »

Trailblazing traits Oman Daily Observer The hard earned success only spurred him to work on numerous other beneficialinventions — the final count running well over a 1000. Thus Columbus set sail westward again on his second voyage on September 23, 1493, this time with a fleet of 17 ships ... See all stories on this topic » Oman Daily Observer

Pressing the Point of Local Printmaking The Epoch Times During the 18th and 19th centuries, the impetus of new inventions like wood engravings, lithography and other mass production technologies saw printmaking enter a new paradigm. For the first time in history, affordable and portable images would be ... See all stories on this topic »

Rachel Sterne Works to Define Her Role as NY's First Chief Digital Officer NY Convergence One of Stern's more popular online inventions for the NY government has been the blog The Daily Pothole. The blog tracks the milling and paving of street cavities from Midwood to Midtown. Sterne is also working on reinventing how the city engages with... See all stories on this topic » NY Convergence

Nucor's steel challenge grand prize winner chosen American Recycler Newspaper Eight semi-finalist teams were flown to Nucor's headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, where they presented their inventions to Nucor executives in June. The winning team – Jared Knobbe and Steven Fish from Imperial, Nebraska –received the $3000 ... See all stories on this topic »

Macronix President C.Y. Lu Wins 2012 IEEE Frederik Philips Award PR Newswire (press release) In recent years, Macronix has invented and filed more than 4200 international patents for high-qualityinventions. Dr. Lu's team has presented their innovative technology at IEDM, ISSCC, VLSI, SSDM, and other prestigious international technical ... See all stories on this topic »

Hay Town Hall is starting to come to life again Lakeshore Advance The 90-minute set will feature original compositions, soon to be released on the album "Inventions of a Breaking Love". Friday's concert is a free community event and is open to all, however donations are requested for Ainslie's musical development. ... See all stories on this topic »

Celeb chefs celebrate the simple sliced loaf www.thedailygoss.com The method that makes bread production possible on a large scale, the Chorleywood Bread Process, is regarded as one of the most significant inventions of the last five decades. Introduced in 1961, it uses British wheat to produce over nine million ... See all stories on this topic »

'Balagtasin' unlocks hearts across the generations GMANews.TV Teatro Balagtas On one hand, the multi-layered storyline of the play-musical explores the rich and engaging possibilities of weaving elements from the past with inventionsfrom the future, enhanced by music played by a live band while maximizing an ... See all stories on this topic » GMANews.TV

Translating Chinese means big business China Daily Early 20th century Chinese translators were able to render modern Westerninventions into simple but good Chinese, such as feiji for airplane, or tanke, for tank, Huang said. However, contemporary Chinese translators are not doing a good job in ... See all stories on this topic » China Daily

Rovi suing Hulu for patent infringement CED Magazine "Rovi invests significant resources" to develop its guides and related inventions for digital video streaming technologies, the company said in court papers. In its complaint, Rovi claims it met with Hulu as early as August 2008 to initiate licensing ... See all stories on this topic »

Fighting for the best idea Times of Oman Research strongly suggests that prizes really can stimulate new inventions — and not just help harvest them in fields already ripe for innovation. Yet contests, by definition, are transitory incentives. “Prize bounty hunter” is hardly a career path, ... See all stories on this topic » Times of Oman

Ben Eggleton, optical physicist ABC Online It is satisfying to think that my inventions have made it into the real world. "Do I agree with the government's investment in the National Broadband Network?" The answer is certainly yes, and I really hope the government can take it through to ... See all stories on this topic » ABC Online

HTC Sues Apple UK Weeks After ITC Loss PC Magazine "We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it," Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, said at the time. "We've decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors ... See all stories on this topic »

Oswestry set for 'unbelievable' Show Border Counties Advertizer For the younger element there are a number of children's classes, it is interesting to see theirinventions, this year they have to make a celebrity from vegetables and fruit, do a flower arrangement in a kitchen utensil and design a seed tray to the ... See all stories on this topic »

Russia to create the safest city The Voice of Russia This is the application of several inventions, which should help people who are handling dangerous situations, such as firefighters, rescuers and disaster managers, says the director of the company, Anton Panfilov: “We have developed several versions... See all stories on this topic » The Voice of Russia

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Heavenly Discoveries, Earthly Inventions - St. Joseph News Story ... New Haven, Connecticut (CNN) -- Astronomers just discovered the largest reservoir of water ever, roughly 140 trillion times the volume of the Earth's oceans ... www.newspressnow.com/news/28738314/detail.html

Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions - Soccer News ... Image: From The Gray Rush, a new work by The Living, commissioned by the Nevada Museum of Art]. I'm heading up to Reno for the next eight days to install ... soccernews.bigsoccer.com/article/0bc28A62fQg9c?q=Nevada

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