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With City Struggling for Footing, Some Transit Is Restored

NEW YORK TIMES
By JAMES BARRON
New York officials said that limited service would be restored to the subways on Thursday and to two commuter rail lines - the Metro-North Railroad and the Long Island Rail Road - on Wednesday afternoon.

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La Ligas vackraste mål 2012 (Maradonamål)

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Alltmer upptäcks även i Sverige cyklingens fördelar

Regeringens cykelutredare Kent Johansson.
Han vill däremot inte att cyklister ska få cykla mot rött ljus eller strunta i stopplikt.
- Man ska följa trafiksignaler. Det är viktigt med tydliga, kraftfulla meddelanden i trafikmiljön, säger han.
I stället vill Johansson att man till exempel har fler särskilda trafikljus för cyklister.
Regeringens utredning bedömer att staten bör satsa mellan 800 miljoner och en miljard kronor för att stimulera fram bättre infrastruktur för cyklister i och mellan kommunerna.
 
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

What you missed from The Slatest, your news companion.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012, at 10:02 AM EDT

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Most Americans Are Predicting an Obama Victory
Wednesday, October 31, 2012, at 9:03 AM EDT

Blog | David Weigel
Quinnipiac: Obama Leads in Ohio, Pennsylvania is Obama's
Wednesday, October 31, 2012, at 9:43 AM EDT

Blog | Matthew Yglesias
If Mitt Romney Wants To Help Hurricane Victims, He Should Donate Some Of His Vast Fortune
Wednesday, October 31, 2012, at 10:16 AM EDT

WednesdayBlog | Matthew Yglesias
Conventional Wisdom Turning Bearish on China
Wednesday, October 31,31 2012, at 9:29 AM EDT

Blog | Forrest Wickman
Disney Buys Lucasfilm, Plans Star Wars 7
Tuesday, October 30, 2012, at 6:20 PM EDT

Blog | Troy Patterson
The Hurricane on TV, Day Two
Tuesday, October 30, 2012, at 7:44 PM EDT

Blog | Kate Phillips
Magnum Photos: Weather and the Human Condition
Wednesday, October 31, 2012, at 10:00 AM EDT
Blog | Emily BazelonShould We Postpone Halloween?
Tuesday, October 30, 2012, at 9:08 PM EDT

History | Matthew J.X. Malady
You Want My Support? How Much Are You Offering?
Wednesday, October 31, 2012, at 3:45 AM EDT
One Ohio county’s long, sordid history of selling its votes to the highest bidder.
Politics | David Weigel
Change Newspapers Can Believe In
Tuesday, October 30, 2012, at 5:23 PM EDT
How Mitt Romney turned flip-flopping into a virtue.
Blog | Matthew Yglesias
Narayana Kocherlakota Is a Hero of Rigor and Honesty that Policymakers Need to Learn From
Wednesday, October 31, 2012, at 10:16 AM EDT

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Screen News

Screen - US Newsletter
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10/31/12
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NEWS
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The Walt Disney Company is to acquire Lucasfilm for $4.05bn in stocks and cash - and is planning to release Star Wars: Episode 7 in 2015.
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EXCLUSIVE: The star is getting back into the Stephen King business after the global hit 1408. New York and LA-based Cargo Entertainment arranged financing on Cell and president of distribution Mark Lindsay will introduce what is expected to become one of the buzz titles of the AFM to international buyers. Paradigm represents US rights.
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EXCLUSIVE: Bill Johnson’s IF Entertainment arrives at its first AFM with the action adventure The Last Knights Of AKO.
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The Civil War era thriller will star Olivia Wilde, Hailee Steinfeld and Nicole Beharie. Wind Dancer Films will finance and produce with Gilbert Films and Anonymous Content. WME Global arranged financing and represents North American rights.
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Wild Side has made a preemptive mid-six figure swoop on French rights to the AFM horror Western to star Kurt Russell, Peter Sarsgaard, Richard Jenkins and Jennifer Carpenter. CAA and UTA co-represent the package and US rights.
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President of international distribution Ruzanna Kegeyan arrives at the market with the first three titles since The Solution Entertainment Group and LA-based Siren Studios launched the genre production and sales outfit last summer.
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Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton and Jacki Weaver have signed on to the JFK feature Parkland. Exclusive Media will finance, jointly produce with Playtone and handle world sales.
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EXCLUSIVE: UK outfit takes world sales rights (excluding US) to Joss Whedon’s update on Shakespearean comedy.
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Other buzz titles on TF1 International’s AFM slate include The Brass Teapot and Before The Winter Chills.
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The veteran executive will report to Relativity president Tucker Tooley and production president Robbie Brenner.
EXCLUSIVE: The highly regarded executive will operate alongside Graham Taylor and the core independent financing and packaging team.
Grindstone Entertainment Group has acquired all US rights to writer-directors Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen’s directorial debut horror film Dark Feed. Ariel Veneziano’s Recreation Media will introduce to international buyers at AFM.
The Santa Monica-based production and sales company has licensed action title Dead Drop, Liam Hemsworth wartime romance Love And Honor and comedy Struck By Lightning to Pinnacle Films/All Interactive Entertainment for Australia and New Zealand.
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EXCLUSIVE: Goalpost Films and Goalpost Pictures re-team with writer Keith Thompson on historical thriller.
EXCLUSIVE: Digital distributor and theatre conversion specialist Cinedigm Entertainment Group has struck a deal with Alloy Digital to deliver packaged content from the latter’s SMOSH and Clevver YouTube channels to ancillary platforms.
IN FOCUS
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Recent VoD releases in the US have underlined the potential of shrinking release windows for independent distributors. Geoffrey Macnab explores the UK market, where excitement about multiplatform releasing is tempered by a wariness of alienating exhibitors.
COMMENT
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Screen’s US editor Jeremy Kay also surveys where Lincoln, The Life of Pi and The Sessions stand in the awards race so far.
INTERVIEW
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As it moves into production, Screen talks to Sky Movies head Ian Lewis about the company’s varied innovations.
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Screen talks to Oscar-winning documentary maker Alex Gibney about new film Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, about paedophilia in the Catholic Church, which yesterday picked up the Best Documentary prize at the London Film Festival.
REVIEWS
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Dir: Dan Bradley. US. 2012. 94mins
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Dir/scr: Yukata Tsuchiya. Japan. 2012. 82mins
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Dir/scr: Hiroshi Okuhara. Japan. 2012. 144mins
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Dir: Nobuo Mizuta. Japan. 2012. 111mins
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Dir: Tetsuaki Matsue. Japan. 2012. 72mins
LATEST BLOG TOPICS
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Halloween, Netflix style.
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The bizarre experience of sitting in the cinema with royalty.
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BAFTA-winning screenwriter [pictured] spoke at the BFI Southbank last night as part of the BAFTA and BFI Screenwriter Lecture Series.
BOX OFFICE
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A weak session at the box office saw Warner Bros’ Academy Awards frontrunner climb to the top of the pile to reach a respectable $60.8m while stablemate Cloud Atlas led the new arrivals and opened in third place on $9.4m.
The Circuit
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Images from the first weekend of the festival, which runs to Nov 7.
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A Ghost in Cepheus

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Science360 Radio

October 26, 2012


The National Science Foundation (NSF) has launched Prototype, a long-format radio interview program that introduces accomplished innovators and the unique stories behind their successes. The program will air on NSF's Science360 Radio Channel.

Prototype guests are entrepreneurs and researchers who carried their breakthroughs from the laboratory to the marketplace and elsewhere in the public sector. Hosted by NSF's Josh Chamot, each episode highlights the work of researchers from across the agency's portfolio, with an introduction on the core technology from producer Laurie Howell.

The first two episodes to launch illustrate the breadth of Prototype content:

Jay LeBoeuf

Jay LeBoeuf was the founder and CEO of Imagine Research (recently acquired by iZotope), where he developed the MediaMined™ search engine for sound files. By creating a platform to search audio files by their aural characteristics--as opposed to keywords--he and his technology have revolutionized sound searches for the music and film industries.

Sheldon Jacobson

Sheldon Jacobson of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is an expert in operations research, and while his efforts have stretched from vaccine stockpiling to statistics, his studies on security continue to influence policy and practice, including screening activities at airports.

Future episodes will post to this link. All are in the public domain and available for re-broadcast.

-NSF-






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