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LATIN AMERICA News, Oct 07, 2011

Playbook: 8 actions in 100 days
Politico
Launch Campaign for Economic Opportunity in Latin America … 7. Conduct a Full Review of Our Transition in Afghanistan … 8. Order Interagency Initiative on Cybersecurity.” PERRY VIDEO: “Romney & Obama: Carbon Copies: Romney's environmental policies ...
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Latin America Market Update with Hamilton Costa of AN Consulting
What They Think
Cary Sherburne and Hamilton Costa of AN Consulting chat about the current status ofLatin American printers and his prediction of their future market. Please allow video to load before playing if you do not have a high speed connection or if you are ...
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Rio international film festival opens
Xinhua
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Festival do Rio, the largest film festival in Latin America, opened here on Thursday, with about 350 movies from 60 countries to be screened in the annual fest. Film screenings would be held during the 12-day ...
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ScanSource Posts Quarterly Sales
MarketWatch (press release)
ScanSource, Inc. /quotes/zigman/56498/quotes/nls/scsc SCSC +0.25% is the leading international distributor of specialty technology products, operating from seven sales units in North America, Latin America and Europe. ScanSource POS and Barcoding in...
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True grit in Kinshasa's streets
Mail & Guardian Online
After the premiere of How to Steal Two Million at the Durban International Film Festival, a colleague from another paper simply dismissed the film as an imitation of American movies -- as, basically, an American story given a South African veneer. ...
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Morning Score: 'Carbon Copies'
Politico
Launch Campaign for Economic Opportunity in Latin America. 7. Conduct a Full Review of Our Transition in Afghanistan. 8. Order Interagency Initiative on Cybersecurity. BRACKETING ROMNEY – HUNTSMAN PREVIEWS FOREIGN POLICY SPEECH: The Republican ...
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Women Drive Boom at LatAm Video Game Fair
Naharnet
by Naharnet Newsdesk The biggest video game fair in Latin Americaopened its doors Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro, with organizers expecting some 60000 visitors and an ever-increasing number of women gamers. The "Brazil Game Show," which began as the "Rio ...
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Naharnet
At the movies
Ottawa Citizen
Jay Stone AMC Kanata, Coliseum, Barrhaven, Empire 7, Empire OrlĂ©ans, SilverCity,South Keys, StarCitĂ© Hugh Jackman stars in this family sci-fi film about a future where robots have become boxers. He's a washed-up fighter who reunites with his long-lost ...
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The internet price gap, and what it means
Stuff.co.nz (blog)
I generally detest all patronising references to New Zealand as a SouthPacific backwater that lags behind the rest of the world in technology. But for the first time I saw a clear and glaring gap with America in how we receive our information. ...
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Stuff.co.nz (blog)
Komli Media, Jivox in strategic video partnership for APAC
exchange4media.com
We want to extend our footprint to Australia, South-east Asia, and the Middle East, and use this platform to build a video advertising network across the APAC region. Our aim is to see the Jivox platform become the most widely adopted platform ...
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Coldplay to Livestream Madrid Concert Online
ABC News
"Until we can come to a video as good as 'Single Ladies' by Beyonce, we have to rely on just the meat and vegetables of playing songs live," says Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, speaking from Cape Town, South Africa, where the band played Wednesday. ...
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Q and A: Forests and Climate
New York Times (blog)
The only true population-growth hot spots that remain are in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Focused programs to empower women in those regions with knowledge and access to birth control could certainly bring growth rates down there, ...
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New York Times (blog)
Netflix and AMC Networks Announce Multi-Year Agreement
MarketWatch (press release)
With more than 25 million members in the United States, Canada and Latin America, Netflix, Inc. /quotes/zigman/87598/quotes/nls/nflx NFLX +2.91% is the world's leading Internet subscription service for enjoying movies and TV shows. For US$7.99 a month,...
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Cinema with a new dimension
Sydney Morning Herald
In New Zealand, Hoyts has a D-BOX cinema with seats that move and vibrate during mainstream Hollywood movies. In South Korea, cinemas went one better by showing Avatar in 4D. Viewers who paid about twice the normal ticket price had moving seats, ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Festival celebrates Ibero culture
The Brown Daily Herald
Cultural exploration, self-discovery, immigration, transgender identity and toilet paper come together in the New England Festival of Ibero-American Film Cinema, which runs through Oct. 9. Sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean ...
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5BARz International Inc. Retains CEO of Telefonica USA to Advisory Board
Sacramento Bee
In addition to this role, Mr. Caputo is responsible for the Americas' arm of the Telefonica Multinational Solutions area which is focused on providing global telecommunications services to multinational corporations in the US and Latin America. ...
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A brief(s) view of Underpants Run
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
It's Ironman Week here in Kailua-Kona, and that means Ali'i Drive is awash in European and South American athletes walking around in Speedos and little else. Fifteen years ago, that prompted three pros to create a parody race, the Underpants Run, ...
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San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Weston vies for world record zumba class at Hispanic Festival
Sun-Sentinel
The class, which will have people energetically dancingto hot Latin American beats, will be part of Fiesta 2011, the Y's second annual celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Festivities will also include Latin-American folkloric dance, music, ...
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Virginia Film Festival announces 2011 event schedule
Augusta Free Press
Noted film historian and television personality Ben Mankiewicz, host of Turner Classic Movies on TNT, will be on hand to present a collection of classics under the heading “Turner Classic Movies and The Library of Congress Celebrate the National Film ...
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Augusta Free Press
Top 3 Companies in the Technology Distributors Industry With the Highest Free ...
Financial News Network Online
The Company distributes wiring systems for voice, data, and video networks and electrical power applications in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Over the past year, Anixter International has traded in a range of $44.52 to $76.16 and ...
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411 Fact or Fiction Movies/TV 10.7.11: Week 300!
411mania.com
All their movies suck anyway; Baseketball was horrible, Team America is worthless, and South Park barely registers a shoulder shrug. People bitch about The Simpsons being irrelevant, when was the last time South Park moved the needle at all? ...
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Justin Bieber Debuts New Christmas Track 'Mistletoe' Live on Brazil Tour (VIDEO)
Christian Post
Singer Justin Bieber arrives at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, August 28, 2011. Justin Bieber is currently on a South Americatour. At his concert Wednesday night, he performed the song "Mistletoe". According to a video posted up on ...
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Christian Post
Back in The Saddle
Wall Street Journal
I was going to ask if you'd sampled some of the chicha [a fermented beverage common to South America], but I'd heard you don't drink anymore. [Laughs] I drink now and then. It's not my favorite drink. It's kind of rank. Call me crazy but I prefer ...
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Wall Street Journal
Afghanistan: A decade of war
USA Today
John Allen says. "There have been real gains, particularly in the south," Allen says. Allen is the latest in a string of commanders of ISAF. In Iraq, Allen helped lead a strategy that convinced influential tribal leaders to turn on al-Qaeda in what ...
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USA Today
Mitt Romney Pivots To Foreign Policy But The Wall St. vs. Main St. Divide ...
ABC News (blog)
Democratic SuperPAC Priorities USA Action has also released a web video today called “Outsourcing,” which the group says highlights Romney's “primary experience with foreign countries — shipping American jobs overseas.” http://bit.ly/nvLxoX But even ...
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Time Warner Cable Makes $1 Million Commitment to Run Broadband Adoption PSAs
MarketWatch (press release)
... tools and resources on its Public Internet Channel ( www.pic.tv ) and The Beehive ( www.beehive.org ) to build better lives. To date, One Economy has launched on the ground programs in 42 US states, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
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AnastasiaDate Signs Playmate Dasha Astafieva as Spokeswoman
MarketWatch (press release)
Founded in 1993, Anastasia International is the world's leading Introduction and Romance Tour Company bringing Western men together with women from Russia & CIS,Latin America, Asia and Africa for dating and marriage. Anastasia's Family of sites ...
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The Two-Way : NPR
NPR
A look at the page's source code finds that even the link under "Latest Events" is a mere hashtag placeholder — which returns anyone who clicks on it to the top of the page they're already on. Other than the video, there are only three working ...
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Global Automotive Entertainment Systems (OEM and Aftermarket) to Reach US$40.9 ...
PR Web (press release)
The report provides market estimates and projections (US$ Million) for major geographic markets including the United States, Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Rest of World. Market Analytics are reported both at OEM and the ...
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SA / Hollywood Exchange
Screen Africa
Designed to promote South Africa as a filming destination and to explore joint venture opportunities with the entertainment industry in Hollywood, the Biennale SouthAfrica/Hollywood Exchange Program takes place from 6 to 11 November in Los Angeles,...
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Film Review: The Help
Times LIVE
In Jackson, Mississippi, much like South Africa under apartheid, black maids raise the children of white socialite housewives, becoming more motherly to them than their biological parents. After returning from university with aspirations of becoming a ...
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Times LIVE
President Obama Knows Shakira Has More to Offer Than 'Hips Don't Lie'
The Stir
One whose resume just happens to include belly-dancing, making musicvideos, and recording duets with Wyclef Jean. Yup, that would be world-famous pop star Shakira. And while most Americans tend to only know her as "that 'Hips Don't Lie' chick," she's ...
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The Stir
Hey, Watch It: What's playing in Madison theaters this weekend
Wisconsin State Journal (blog)
More tough guys appear at Union South's Marquee theater, 1308 W. Dayton Ave., which is showing "Captain America: The First Avenger" at 7 and 9:30 pm Friday and Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, as well as "The Professional," starring Jean Reno as a master ...
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After attack, singer finds everything 'Sweeter'
Columbus Dispatch
The Dispatch app features breaking news, sports, weather, videos, movie times, gas prices, a flight tracker and much more. By Alicia Powell and Christine Kearney NEW YORK — A beating would never be viewed as something good — except, perhaps, ...
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A Fool's Utopia 10.07.11: Haunted Houses You Should Know
411mania.com
Also we talk about Elvira's Hills, Disney Halloween Specials, the new seasons of South Park and Parks and Recreation as well as the most famous Hell in a Cell match ever! My Halloween plans for this column got all screwed up. ...
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Go! Stage & Screen calendar: Oct. 7-13
Times Herald-Record
Campaigns to bring women, both Latin American and Spanish, into the town to become wives and mothers also bring cultural and sexual clashes. In Spanish with English subtitles. Part of the "Hispanic Studies Film Series: Sexuality & Gender in ...
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Is Lawrence O'Donnell the Rudest Creep in America?
Pajamas Media
In this video interview with Herman Cain, O'Donnell acts as if he were what my grandmother would call “raised by wolves.” BTW, Larry, in case Google Alerts prompts you to stop by, I really was in the civil rights movement, South Carolina, 1966. ...
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Ogden mayor's race: Caldwell raises 10 times more than Stephenson
StandardNet
Ford, the owner of Christopher Productions LLC, a South Ogden video production firm, said he first became impressed with Caldwell's work in leading the GOAL Foundation, a local nonprofit organization founded shortly after the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. ...
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Justin Bieber Previews 'Mistletoe' On Tour
MTV.com
The singer, who is currently on tour in South America, finally gave fans an idea of what his November 1 release, Under the Mistletoe, will sound like. In footage posted at DirectLyrics, Bieber told the crowd, "This is the first time anywhere in the ...
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UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News
UPI.com
Epidemiological maps prepared by researchers from the University of Texas at Austin suggest south Texas, in particular, is an area of high risk for infection by the parasitic disease. Endemic to rural areas of Latin America, Chagas disease is often ...
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'Family Guy's' Seth MacFarlane Reveals Ideal GOP Presidential Ticket for 'Wall ...
Hollywood Reporter
"You saw when Obama was elected, it was to fix things within a few years, and I remember thinking that's going to go south pretty fast," he said. "You figure eight years of damage has to take 16 years to fix, logically, I would think. ...
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An Unusual Conference
Inside Higher Ed
The company is owned by the entrepreneur Randy Best, who also operates for-profit colleges in the United States (master's degrees through American College of Education) and in seven Latin American countries (Whitney University International). ...
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Pixar became a digital pioneer, with help from Steve Jobs
Washington Post (blog)
Carl Fredricksen, the 78-year-old central character of Disney/Pixar's “Up,” ties thousands of balloons to his home to fulfill his lifelong dream of seeing South America. After setting out, he realizes Russell, left, has hitched a ride. ...
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Soccer to Face First SEC Foe on the Road
LSUSports.net
14 nationally in the latest Soccer America Top 25 released Tuesday morning. The Tigers are also ranked No. 25 in the country this week in both the NSCAA/Continental Tire Top 25 and Soccer Times Top 25 published Tuesday. The Tigers, who are also ranked ...
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The Mixed Messages and Contradictions of Occupy Wall Street
Patch.com
The clip features video taken from one of the Occupy Wall Street protests held last week and clearly shows members of the NYPD violently over stepping their bounds when confronting peaceful protesters. This really should not come as a surprise to ...
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Equinix secures US$150m from US banks
DatacenterDynamics
It also follows its recent acquisition of ALOG Data Centers do Brasil SA in April this year, providing it with a platform into South America. Equinix President Steve Smith said during its Q2 earnings call that Equinix is on target to surpass its ...
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Florida Morning: More cuts coming; casino bill set
Florida Times-Union (blog)
Miami Herald: http://bit.ly/nFUaDU CASINO BILL SET: A Tallahassee court cleared the way Thursday for legislators to expand gambling in South Florida without a referendum vote, while two key sponsors of a casino bill finished drafting their proposal to ...
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Sen. Diane Allen donates 10000 pounds of nutrition bars to South Jersey food ...
South Jersey Local News
Organizers and directors from 17 South Jersey area food banks came to a warehouse in Delran to pick up their share of 100000 nutrition bars which Sen. Allen donated to the food pantries. She said Nourish America helped in the donation and that the ...
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South Jersey Local News
Connection Between Latin America & Middle East Terrorism - Fox ...
Watch the latest politics, entertainment and breaking news videos at FoxNews. com.... Connection Between Latin America & Middle East Terrorism. Oct 5, 2011 ...
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Recent suicide attacks by Somali militants
Recent attacks claimed by or blamed on the al-Qaida-linked group known as al- Shabab: — Oct. 4: Militants detonate a truck bomb ... Latest breaking news » on PalmBeachPost.com ... latest world news videos. Latin America news from NTN24...
www.palmbeachpost.com/.../recent-suicide-attacks-by-somali-...

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