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LATIN AMERICA News, Sep 16, 2011


Online Poker Site, CardPlayerLa.com, Launched into Latin American Market
MarketWatch (press release)
The site got its coverage up and running recently with the Latin American Poker Tour Punta del Este and the Americas Cup of Poker and will cover all upcoming LAPT and other major Latam events, with live updates, photos, and videos. ...
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Landers Says Brazilian Stock Market Is `Very Attractive': Video
Washington Post
15 (Bloomberg) -- Will Landers, manager of BlackRock Inc.'s Latin America Fund, talks about investing in Latin America. Landers speaks with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop." (Source: Bloomberg) (/Bloomberg) Correction: Clarification: ...
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Entertainment firm seeks incentives for new jobs
South Florida Business Journal
A company that produces films and videos for Latin American markets has applied for public incentives to expand its operations in Miami-Dade County by 101 employees and 63000 square feet. While the identity of the company on the application submitted ...
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The Price Is Wrong for Netflix
Wall Street Journal
When Starz content—movies from Sony and Walt Disney—disappear from the streaming service early next year, that will likely take a big hit, too. All this is happening as Netflix bears the costs of international expansion into Latin Americaand Canada ...
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Wall Street Journal
* Disney axing local language film unit
Financial Times (blog)
BTG Pactual, Brazil's largest independent investment bank – recently valued at $10bn – is looking to hold an initial public offering as early as next year as one option to fund an ambitious expansion inLatin America, the FT reports. ...
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Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
15, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Arbenz Family and other Notables to Give First Formal Statements on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies will be hosting a groundbreaking public forum on the ...
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The Spanish are coming!
MiamiHerald.com
Over the next 30 days, South Florida will be on the receiving end of a tidal wave of cinema from the Iberian Peninsula. • Nat Chediak Presents David Trueba: Recent Work will run Sept. 16-22 at the Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables. ...
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Comcast Introduces Its First Multiplatform Hispanic Film Festival, Offering ...
MarketWatch (press release)
PHILADELPHIA, Sep 15, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Comcast is offering its first-ever multiplatform Hispanic Film Festival, featuring 20 Spanish-language award-winning and independent films from Latin America and ...
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Playing for Change in Culpeper
Culpeper Star Exponent
With confirmed events in at least 25 countries across North and South America, Africa, Asia and Europe, it is certain that music will be heard globally on Saturday at various venues and through various talents. Page Durham, music teacher at Farmington ...
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Best of Toronto: Oscar candidates and indie breakouts
Salon
Baseball movies have long been tough sells to mass audiences, and for obvious reasons don't play well internationally (except in Latin America and Japan). Still most people who saw "Moneyball" in Toronto report that it tells an engrossing story, ...
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Salon
Superclasico: Argentina v Brazil Highlights (UK/ROI)
ESPN.co.uk
Video courtesy of Surrey TV. (03:15) | Sep 15, 2011 Superclasico: Argentina v Brazil Highlights (UK/ROI) Football Highlights : South American rivals Argentina and Brazil played out a goalless draw in their international friendly in Cordoba on Wednesday ...
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IFC Films Takes North American and Latin American Rights to Lynn Shelton's ...
4-traders (press release)
Toronto, CANADA - September 14, 2011 – IFC Films announced today from the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival that the company is acquiring North American and Latin American rights to director Lynn Shelton's YOUR SISTER'S SISTER. ...
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'Straw Dogs' remake doesn't have impact of original
STLtoday.com
First, the original had the couple going to England to avoid violence in America. So when things go bad in England — a more civilized place, right? — the message that man is a violent animal hits hard. Going to the Deep South, with its embrace of ...
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Taliban tour 'liberated' base in eastern Afghanistan
Long War Journal
The location of the base is not given; the Taliban said only that the base is located in Wardak province, which borders Kabul province to the south. It is unclear if the base shown was run by the US military, the Afghan Army, or a contracting group. ...
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Cox Communications Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
MarketWatch (press release)
... by highlighting culturally relevant programming available On Demand as well as committing to air educational public service announcements (PSA) as part of its partnership with The League of UnitedLatin American Citizens (LULAC). ...
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Go! Stage & Screen calendar: Sept. 16-22
Times Herald-Record
"The Color Purple" — Steven Spielberg directed a 1985 adaptation of the novel by Alice Walker about the journey of an African-American woman (Whoopi Goldberg in her film debut). A "Movies With Spirit" presentation at the New Progressive Baptist Church ...
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George Osborne's Telegraph Festival of Business speech
Telegraph.co.uk
The people in this room come from all parts of our country – from Aberdeen to Devon, from here in the North West to the South East. You run businesses that offer totally different services and goods – from components engineering to video production, ...
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Opinion: CMO World Tour interview with Fiat's Joao Ciaco
Campaign Asia-Pacific
By Frédéric Colas on Sep 16, 2011 (1 hour ago) GLOBAL - In this installment of the CMO World Tour, Frédéric Colas, chief strategic officer of Fullsix, sits down with João Ciaco, director of advertising and relationship marketing for Latin America and ...
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NOLA Documentary 'Yes Ma'am': Real Life 'The Help' to Screen at Chalmette Movies
Examiner.com
African-American domestic workers were prevalent in the homes of white families for decades, especially in the South. And a truly Southern and cultured city like New Orleans was no exception. Starting this Friday, Chalmette Movies will give audiences a ...
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A Painting That Begat a Whole Show
New York Times
26, there's a lot going on behind the scenes at Gallery Met, the 1500-square-foot space in the southlobby that presents contemporary-art exhibitions tied to the operas onstage. Now in its fifth year, Gallery Met will once again pay homage to the Met's ...
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Sean Paul's world premiere music video "Got 2 Luv U"
Examiner.com
Alexis Jordan, 19, is an American recording artist and actress from Columbia, South Carolina. Jordan rose to fame as a contestant on the first season of America's Got Talent in 2006. After being eliminated from the show, she began to upload cover songs ...
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Analysis: Turkey tough talk boosts Mideast stature
WBOC TV 16
Entertainment News from AP AP National News Video More>> AP Newsminute: Remembering 9/11 By ELENA BECATOROS and SELCAN HACAOGLU AP ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Treated to a hero's welcome in Egypt this week and flexing his military muscle in the eastern ...
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AN AMERICAN ABROAD: These Super-American Movies Did Even Better Overseas
Business Insider
Fearing anti-American foreign sentiment, Paramount had pondered marketing the film as just "The First Avenger." But every foreign distributor -- save for Russia, Ukraine, and South Korea -- went with the original title because of the character's ...
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Disney Channels President Departs
Wall Street Journal
Ms. Lightcap took the reins at the cable-television operation in November 2009, after overseeing the network's Latin American operations. In a letter to employees, Ms. Lightcap said, "I readily embrace change as a good thing." Mr. Marsh, who succeeds ...
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Student follows veteran father through Vietnam
the Inkwell
Photos portray American involvement in a negative light, and in one part of the English video for tourists American troops are referred to as South Vietnam's "lackeys." Watching this video with my dad made me squirm, and I was not surprised when he ...
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The Interrupters
Boston Globe
But “The Interrupters'' is set on the South Side where, we're told, as many black men, women, and children have died as American troops in both those wars. James and his credited codirector, the journalist Alex Kotlowitz, spare us the deluges of ...
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