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LATIN AMERICA News, Oct 15, 2011


Justin Bieber Fans Invade His Chile Hotel (Video)
Gather Celebs News Channel
Justin Bieber is in the middle of his South American tour, where his fans have been nothing if not passionate about his presence there. The latest proof of their overzealous ways came on Friday, where a flock of screaming Beliebers, numbering in the ...
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BlackBerry blackout is new threat to brand
BusinessWeek
BlackBerrys in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa had been without email or chat messages since Monday. In the US and Canada, the outage was shorter, starting Wednesday. But many, perhaps most, of the world's 70 million BlackBerry users were ...
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Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore Separate
Wonderwall
"Sonic Youth, with both Kim and Thurston involved, will proceed with its South American tour dates in November," their rep said in a statement. "Plans beyond that tour are uncertain. The couple has requested respect for their personal privacy and does...
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Covidien, Aircraft Join Forces
InvestorIdeas.com (press release)
Under the agreement terms, the Ireland-based company will distribute Aircraft's proprietary McGRATH MAC video laryngoscope across the US, UK, Japan, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. Covidien will showcase the McGRATH MAC laryngoscope at the ...
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Catching up with digital: 3D drives the rollout south of the border
Film Journal
3D content dominates Latin American d-screens. Digital 2D screenings are less common in this region, with just a few movies since 2010. Alternative-content screenings (soccer matches, rock concerts and opera performances) are increasing, but they still ...
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Film Journal
Rio's Unprecedented New Surveillance System
Daily Beast
The biggest surveillance screen in Latin America spans 860 square feet in a new building called the Ops Center that most residents of Rio de Janeiro don't even know exists. But Rio knows that they exist, and the people who run this city are now ...
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A peek into the future: Slums as innovation hotbeds
CBS News
Once visitors pass through security and enter the UN, they can choose to enter the world of "Design with the Other 90%," which offers a glimpse at how designers are currently working with communities in informal urban settlements in Latin America, ...
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Free-trade pacts export US copyright controls
CNET
Now Colombia, Panama, and South Korea will be required to prohibit circumventing any "technological measure that controls access to a protected work"--meaning that making a backup copy of a DVD or videogame will become illegal, and, depending on the ...
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CNET
VIDEO: Protesters Have Messages for U.S., South Korean Presidents
Patch.com
Drutis said the passage of the US-South Korea Trade Agreement, which backers say will create 70000 American jobs and encourage international business partnerships, is a an uneven trade. “The Korean economy is a tenth of the US," Drutis said. ...
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VOD's vigor gives digital new hope
Variety
Hollywood film distributors particularly warmed to VOD overseas because the once-vibrant physical video businesses shriveled precipitously during the online era in some territories, especially in South Korea and Spain. Historically, independent film ...
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Variety
FILM: “Playing with dreams” AND “Light, Camera, Reality”
Mission Local
Since 2004, the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts has chronicled underground, low- and no-budget videos from Latin America and the Bay Area's diverse Latino community with our annual Video Fest program. Tonight we feature two reels of shorts and ...
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Anita Perry Sympathizes with Unemployed Worker Citing Son's Resignation from Bank
ABC News (blog)
In an attempt to sympathize with unemployed workers in South Carolina Friday, Anita Perry likened her son's resignation from an investment banking job to the frustration felt by the unemployed in America. An audience member at Dyers Diner in Pendleton, ...
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ABC News (blog)
Is Hollywood's mania for remakes spinning out of control?
Los Angeles Times
Born and raised in Holland, where he has been a successful commercial director for the past 15 years, Van Heijningen spent his teen years gorging himself on Kafka novels and groundbreaking American movies, notably “The Godfather” series, “Blade Runner ...
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Video View: Latest 'Pirates' movie invades shelves Tuesday
Beaver County Times
"Robotech: The Complete Original Series" (A&E; $99.99, DVD; Oct. 18), a limited- edition set on 17 discs with all 85 remastered titles of the dramatic anime import about a mysterious spacecraft crash-landing on a South Pacific island. ...
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IFC.com > News > Movies > Exclusive: "Attack the Block" gets eyed for ...
IFC
So he's on a horse leading this army of South London kids across the river to take on this bigger wave of aliens. So yeah it's really fun to think of stuff like that and what we could do." Apart from cast suggestions on what a sequel could look like, ...
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Follow From the Wires
Salon
Western US states are planning two of North America's largest desalination plants in Playas de Rosarito, about 15 miles south of San Diego. They would produce 150 million gallons a day combined — enough to supply more than 300000 homes on both sides ...
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Conor McCarthy brings freestyle soccer to US with tutorial videos: Interview
Examiner.com
Once I upload a video it will appear on your YouTube homepage. America is the top of the list in places where I would love to set up a Learn2Freestyle camp. I think it could be a huge success there with the recent development of soccer there with big ...
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Mr. Nedawi: Argentinian star will not be taking up Breeders' Cup spot
Racing Post
By michael burns 7:05AM 15 OCT 2011 Argentina: Time has run out forSouth American star Mr. Nedawi and his proposed tilt at the Grade 2 Breeders´Cup Marathon on November 5. Connections of the Brazilian star have decided against a trip to Churchill ...
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Racing Post
American director knows ins and outs of China production
Variety
By Clifford Coonan BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA -- With all the buzz surrounding China's potential as an entertainment business giant, some filmmakers are not waiting for East to meet West. Beijing-based American helmer Dayyan Eng believes his experience working ...
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TMCnet Conferencing Week in Review
TMC Net
It will also be available in China as well as Central and South America. “Until now, HD videoconferencing in the most remote regions of the world has been costly, unreliable and of poor quality,” said Thomas Luketich, VP of Videoconferencing and ...
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In Monday's newspaper
Vancouver Sun
Vancouver's 80000-strong Filipino community is the third largest visible minority in the city after Chinese and South Asians. Part three of The Vancouver Sun's guide to ethnics in Metro Vancouver appears in Monday's newspaper. ...
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Movies on TV, Tonight and Sunday
Regina Leader-Post
South Africa assigns a restricted area for extraterrestrial refugees. (2hrs.30 mins.) (101) 3 Drag Me to Hell Alison Lohman. A young woman must shatter a powerful curse. (1 hr.40 mins.) (106) WGN-S The X-Files: Fight the Future See 6 pm (149) 2 Mean ...
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Kyodo news summary -1-
TMC Net
Speaking after attending a working dinner for the two-day meeting of the Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors starting Friday, Azumi also told reporters that the recent sharp rise of the yen against other major currencies has caused ...
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Lost In Darkness Releases Official Video
Metal Underground
Medellin, Colombia doom/death band Lost In Darkness has finally released an officialvideo for the track "Mater Lachrymorum" from their "Acanto: Ignis Profanus" EP, which should be re-released outside of South America on Salute Records by the beginning ...
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UPI NewsTrack TopNews
UPI.com
In his weekly radio and Internet address -- recorded in Detroit Friday during his visit withSouth Korean President Lee Myung-bak to a General Motors Co. plant -- Obama said the free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, ...
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Major western lies about Libya revealed
Press TV
Instead we saw the videos of black Libyans and other black Africans being lynched in public squares by NATOs ground troops - the rebels, with scores of people filming on their mobile phones and Western Special Forces looking on. ...
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Press TV
P&F Low Pole - WD, WDC, WFT, WG, WLK
Health Talk & You
The Company's geographic reporting segments include North America, Latin America, Europe/West Africa/the former Soviet Union (FSU) and Middle East/North Africa/Asia. Its product offerings are grouped into ten service lines: artificial lift systems; ...
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Critics of US withdrawal plans are on the wrong side of history
Salon
Of course, the popular image of America's departure from South Vietnam is hardly one that seems worth emulating. Iconic videos and photographs of US helicopters leaving from the embassy in Saigon — the largest helicopter evacuation in history, ...
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Salon
A documentary charts Harry Belafonte's busy life
BusinessWeek
Moreover, he gained international stardom in concert, on TV and film in such movies as "Carmen Jones" (1954), "The World, the Flesh and the Devil" and "Buck and the Preacher." He won a Tony Award in 1954 for his featured role in "John Murray Anderson's...
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"Aamir Khan said 'no' to my film" - Roger Spottiswoode
IndiaFM
The West has never demeaned India in their movies. They've rather portrayed the human side of it. Nobody really feels that the flashy films about American affluence are real America. So why would one praise the flashy films of India? ...
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IndiaFM
Flashes Host Miami Saturday on Homecoming Weekend
Kent State University Athletics
The RedHawks are coming off their first victory of the year over Army, while the Golden Flashes earned a win in their most recent home game against South Alabama. Kent State is 5-3 at Dix Stadium since the beginning of the 2010 season. ...
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Cain surge welcomed by So. Car. democrats
Examiner.com
Hoping to boost Candidate Cain (and guarantee the Democratic hold on the White House, too) SC Forward Progress produced this latest video (see in top of left column). With his idiotic takes on taxes and responsible parenthood, his obvious ignorance of ...
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Queenslander Nathan Haas eyes Herald Sun Tour victory
Herald Sun
Australian Jack Anderson, Belgian Stijn Vandenbergh, American Nic Hamilton andSouth African Dylan Girdlestone were caught with less than 10km to travel. SouthAustralian Jack Bobridge, Queenslander Nathan Haas and Dane Jonas Aen Jorgensen are tomorrow ...
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Apl.de.ap to kids: We can be anything
Inquirer.net
Ap, the Filipino-American member of the American hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas, poses during a press conference on the launching of an education advocacy campaign which he leads Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011 in suburban Pasay City, south of Manila, ...
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Inquirer.net
Showing off, with pride
New Zealand Herald
Christopher Seaman conducted the orchestra in tastings of treats to come; video clips took us south of Penrose for the APO's innovative Sistema Aotearoa programme. The 2012 APN News & Media Premier Series may have some Brahms, Schumann and Tchaikovsky ...
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Human Rights Group Welcomes Obama's Decision to Send Troops to Uganda
New York Times (blog)
By ROBERT MACKEY “Dear Obama” is a video produced by Human Rights Watch in 2010 in which victims of the Lord's Resistance Army appealed to the Americanpresident to protect them. As my colleagues Thom Shanker and Rick Gladstone report, “President Obama ...
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Student-Loan Debt and the Occupy Davis Movement
Patch.com
One person at that first meeting, who had just returned from Chile, told a story of protests that came as the South American country moved closer to a privatized university system. The protests materialized just as he was to fly back to the United ...
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NJ, a Star of TV and Movie Settings
Patch.com
After taking a short hiatus from New Jersey when he got married and lived in Brooklyn for a year, he moved to Kendall Park and finally settled in South Brunswick. The Commission, created in 1977 by an act of the state legislature, went into operation ...
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Carmike Shows Off Its Coming Movie Technology
The Sanatoga Post (blog)
BYOB; fine Mexican and South American. Made In Pennsylvania Billing itself as “he largest source of Made in Pennsylvania products on the web.” Martha's Famous Pottstown. Homemade soul food, chicken, ribs, greens, cornbread. ...
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Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Review
Digitaltrends.com
As the NATO pilots try to hunt down the source of the Trinity weapon, a group of rogue Russian radicals retaliate (trying saying that five times fast) against the 108th, and the battle rages across the world from Africa toSouth America to the United ...
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Digitaltrends.com
Gates Corporation Announces “Tools for Schools” Automotive Educator Program
PR.com (press release)
Gates maintains sales and marketing operations in every major industrial and automotive market, including North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East. Gates is part of the Industrial & Automotive group of Tomkins Ltd., ...
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KMPH FOX 26 | Central San Joaquin Valley News SourceAP Top News at 11:35 am ...
KMPH Fox 26
Entertainment News from AP AP Top News at 11:35 am EDT -Saturday, October 15, 2011 AP National News Video More>> Anti-Wall Street protesters march past millionaires' homes in New York: 'Tax the rich!' More>> Illegal immigrants make plans for kids' care ...
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Big data way of the future or echo of big brother past?
Sydney Morning Herald
This summer a little-known intelligence agency began seeking ideas from academic social scientists and corporations for ways to automatically scan the internet in 21 Latin American countries for ''big data'', according to a research proposal being ...
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Shields and Brooks on Herman Cain, Occupy Movement, Detroit, iPhone 4S
PBS NewsHour
Something fishy must be going on. Quinn Bowman shot and edited thisvideo. Follow Hari on Twitter, like him on Facebook or circle him on Google Plus. South Korean President Lee Myung - bak waves as President Barack Obama looks on at General.
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PBS NewsHour
Right-Wing Media React To Alleged Assassination Plot: "Bomb Iran Now"
Media Matters for America
The video for this item requires a newer version of Flash Player. If you are unable to install flash you can download a QuickTime version of the video. DOJ: "Two Men Charged in Alleged Plot to Assassinate Saudi Arabian Ambassador To The United States. ...
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Selena Gomez remains musical mystery
Calgary Herald (blog)
Here's what rose above the trash-talk din. n The native of Grand Prairie, Texas, was named after Selena Quintanilla-Perez, the Latin music superstar who was murdered by her fan-club president in 1995. Quintanilla-Perez was considered Mexico's ...
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2011 Election: Ward 4 City Council
The Ann Arbor Chronicle
A replay of the forum is available via Community Television Network'svideo on demand service. [Ward 4 CTN coverage] Higgins did not attend the forum, sending her regrets in a written statement, which was read aloud: “I'm confirming that I will not be ...
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The Ann Arbor Chronicle
Mattel's CEO Discusses Q3 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
Ewa is a Polish phenomenon, and she made her own Monster High music video in Polish, connecting girls to the brand in their language. We're also very well positioned in growing in all markets in Latin America. In fact, if our Latin American business ...
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Daily Deadline: Beware the Ides of March?
New Republic (blog)
The time demands of fatherhood have forced me to see most movies vicariously, through the eyes of reviewers. So while I don't know film all that well, I do know the people who write about film. My favorites are the ones whose reviews reflect knowledge ...
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Blackberry Outages Spread to Latin America - One News Page VIDEO
News video: Blackberry Outages Spread to Latin America BlackBerry's latest service disruptions have now spread beyond Europe, the Middle East and Africa ...
www.onenewspage.com/.../Blackberry-Outages-Spread-to-Lati...

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