BRIEFCASE DISNEY TAPS DOW FOR EXECUTIVE POST.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services BURBANK - Troy Dow was named Wednesday vice president, Government Relations, for The Walt Disney Co., effective April 7. Dow will focus on intellectual property, legislative and regulatory issues in the Burbank-based company's Washington, D.C., office. Dow currently is vice president and counsel for technology and new media at the Motion Picture Association of America, specializing in intellectual property and technology issues. He previously was intellectual property counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee The U.S. Senate established the Committee on the Judiciary on December 10, 1816, as one of the original 11 standing committees. It is also one of the most powerful committees in Congress; among its wide range of jurisdictions is investigation of federal judicial nominees and oversight of , where he was involved in the drafting and enactment of laws addressing the intersection of technology and intellectual property, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law which implements two 1996 WIPO treaties. It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services that are used to measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly . Coffee Bean & Tea growing in Asia The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, a Los Angeles-based privately held specialty coffee and tea retailer, announced plans on Wednesday for further expansion in the Southeast Asia market. The new partnership was signed with The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Philippines Inc. to open a minimum of 22 branded stores in that country in five years, with the concentration in the Manila area. The first stores are scheduled to open this spring. The Southeast Asia region is a cornerstone of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf international business, with more than 100 retail stores operating in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. The chain's first store in the region was opened in Singapore in 1996. CSC to continue support of Hubble EL SEGUNDO - Computer Sciences Corp. announced Wednesday that it will continue to support NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the first large optical orbiting observatory. Built from 1978 to 1990 at a cost of $1.5 billion, the HST (named for astronomer E. P. Hubble) was expected to provide the clearest view yet obtained of the universe. program under an agreement with the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) is a consortium of universities and other institutions that operates astronomical observatories and telescopes. Inc. AURA, which operates the Space Telescope Science Institute The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST; in orbit since 1990) and for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST; scheduled to be launched in 2013). for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), in Baltimore, is a consortium of 36 universities and other nonprofit institutions committed to advancing the frontiers of astronomy. The contract extension is valued at $43 million over five years and marks more than 20 years of continuous CSC support for the program in such areas as systems engineering, software development and maintenance, and planning and scheduling of science observations. ``The Hubble Space Telescope will continue to play a critical role as NASA moves into a new era with a science-driven mission to explore the universe and inspire the next generation of explorers,'' said Dave Ziobro, vice president of CSC's NASA Programs. ``CSC, along with AURA, has supported this mission since 1981, and we look forward to supporting this great observatory for many more years,'' he said. About 80 scientists, systems engineers, software developers and computer operations specialists will continue to perform the work at offices in Baltimore, Laurel and Lanham, Md. Al-Jazeera also banned by Nasdaq NEW YORK - The Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. has joined the New York Stock exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. in barring journalists from Al-Jazeera, the Arab television network that has aired footage of American prisoners of war prisoners of war, in international law, persons captured by a belligerent while fighting in the military. International law includes rules on the treatment of prisoners of war but extends protection only to combatants. in Iraq. Al-Jazeera had not used Nasdaq's facilities in two years, instead filing market reports from the NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange . The network lost that option earlier in this week after it was banned by exchange officials who cited space and security constraints and the desire to focus on business news organizations. Airline, pilot talks snag over layoffs FORT WORTH, Texas Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas, 18th-largest city in the United States[1], and voted one of "America’s Most Livable Communities. - Negotiations between American Airlines and its pilots have become entangled en·tan·gle tr.v. en·tan·gled, en·tan·gling, en·tan·gles 1. To twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; snarl. 2. To complicate; confuse. 3. To involve in or as if in a tangle. over the financially troubled carrier's intention to fire nearly 1,000 additional pilots, a union official said Wednesday. American wants to lay off the pilots regardless of the union's own plans to cut costs by layoffs and other means, including changes in work rules, said Gregg Overman o·ver·man n. 1. A person having authority over others, especially an overseer or a shift supervisor. 2. See superman. tr.v. of the Allied Pilots Association. The airline disputed a charge by the union that American was increasing its demand for concessions. New-home sales, factory orders dip WASHINGTON - Bad weather and prewar jitters took a toll on the economy in February: New-home sales plunged to the lowest level in nearly three years and manufacturers saw their demand drop. The pair of reports released by the Commerce Department on Wednesday highlighted the latest batch of potholes the economy is hitting. New-home sales plummeted 8.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 854,000, the lowest level since August 2000. That came on top of an even steeper, 12.6 percent decline in January. In the manufacturing report, orders to factories for big-ticket goods fell 1.2 percent in February, unwinding part of the 1.9 percent gain reported in January. |
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