Deals of the Hour

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Deals of the Hour / September 16, 2010, 9:39 am

Conspirator, Submarine among flurry of deals at Toronto

IFC Films is believed to have paid six figures for US rights from Submarine to Werner Herzog's 3D documentary Cave Of Forgotten Dreams. The Creative Differences and History Films entry explores the Chauvet-Pont-d ... (Source: Screendaily 2010-09-15T23:16:17Z)

BDNA Announces Release of New BDNA Normalize'

BDNA chose the DEMO 2010 Conference in Santa Clara ... and enterprise resource planning (ERP) sources, creating rich analytic applications for regulatory compliance/IT governance, IT value delivery, and location ... (Source: Consumer Electronics Net 2010-09-14T17:26:43Z)

Police cruiser, car collide on Rt. 195

MATTAPOISETT – A state police cruiser from the Bourne baracks was rear-ended by a civilian vehicle this morning near the scene of a Route 195 road detail near Exit 19. According to a witness at the scene ... (Source: Cape Cod Times 2010-09-15T13:57:56Z)

SVnetworks Names Chief Revenue Officer

and also has serve as SVP of Sales at Viacom, where he handled ad sales for MTV Networks. Loria also has been at Turner Broadcasting, Massive, Joost, and TidalTV. SVnetwork operates a brand advertising network, (Source: socalTech.com 2010-09-14T12:26:04Z)

Pope Benedict XVI starts state visit

EDINBURGH (AFP) – Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday the Catholic Church had dropped its guard on paedophilia and had failed to deal with the issue quickly enough, as he began an historic state visit to ... (Source: YAHOO! 2010-09-16T13:35:17Z)

Massachusetts Trooper Hit at Work Detail

A Massachusetts State Police trooper was injured on Interstate 195 in Mattapoisett on Wednesday when his cruiser was struck at a work detail. Trooper Daniel Crespi was in his cruiser in the westbound lane ... (Source: Officer.com 2010-09-16T14:18:14Z)

Prosecutor: Man drank for hours before fatal crash involving Angels pitcher Nick ...

... Nick Adenhart and two others fled on foot, even as people gave chase and yelled at him to stop, witnesses testified. Andrew Gallo, 23 ... 20-year-old Courtney Stewart and 25-year-old Henry Pearson. He has also ... (Source: Deseret News 2010-09-15T17:25:32Z)

Pope acknowledges church failures

Pope Benedict XVI has acknowledged the Catholic Church failed to act decisively or quickly enough to deal with priests who rape and molest children. Speaking to reporters Thursday en route to a state visit to Britain ... (Source: The Gouverneur Times 2010-09-16T13:49:36Z)

Justin Bieber's acting on 'CSI': Not horrible!

CBS has released a sneak peek at Justin Bieber's acting debut on the Sept. 23 season 11 premiere of CSI . It's an interrogation scene opposite Nick (George Eads), who wants Bieber's character to give ... (Source: Artistdirect.com 2010-09-14T19:42:43Z)

Macquarie hangs on in race for CNS assets

Private equity fund Providence Equity Partners has dropped out of the $US2 billion ($A2.14 billion) auction of Taiwan cable operator China Network Systems Co, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters ... (Source: Business Spectator 2010-09-15T05:15:23Z)

UPDATE 2-Pentagon sees decisions soon on new bomber

Ashton Carter, the U.S. Defense Department's top weapons buyer, used a speech at the annual Air Force Association conference to explain 23 new measures aimed at trimming overhead and cutting waste in Pentagon weapons ... (Source: Reuters 2010-09-15T22:19:01Z)

Meg Lowe to Oversee Discovery Domestic Distribution

... SVP of domestic distribution, joining from MTV Networks to oversee sales and marketing for all U.S. services. Reporting to Discovery Global Distribution president Bill Goodwyn, Lowe, who spent 15 years at Viacom ... (Source: Broadcasting Cable 2010-09-15T16:13:57Z)

Crime and Public Safety, September 16

Riverside County sheriff's homicide detectives are investigating the death of a San Bernardino baby. The 1-month-old boy died at Riverside County Regional Medical Center in Moreno Valley at 6:02 a.m. Tuesday, (Source: San Jose Mercury News 2010-09-16T00:35:02Z)

Hedrick Challenges Calvert to Keep Hands Off Clean Air Act

... work with clean air advocates as well as federal and local officials in improving the Riverside-San Bernardino region ... Riverside County, which covers roughly three quarters of California's 44th Congressional ... (Source: DAILY KOS 2010-09-15T23:44:55Z)

Driver injured in collision with police cruiser

MATTAPOISETT – A state police cruiser from the Bourne barracks was rear-ended by a civilian vehicle this morning near the scene of a Route 195 road detail and the driver of the vehicle hospitalized ... (Source: Cape Cod Times 2010-09-15T10:23:12Z)

Video: A look at Justin Bieber's 'CSI' performance

Why wait to watch Justin Bieber on the Sept. 23 season premiere of "CSI" when you can get a sneak peek of it right now? Bieber -- who apparently tried to get into character a little too late during his recent semi ... (Source: Washington Post 2010-09-15T19:27:13Z)

BDNA Announces Release of New BDNA Normalize™

and enterprise resource planning (ERP) sources, creating rich analytic applications for regulatory compliance/IT governance, IT value delivery, and location-aware IT asset utilization. Constantin Delivanis, (Source: Business Wire 2010-09-14T02:17:37Z)

Nick Loria Joins SVnetwork as Chief Revenue Officer

As SVP of Sales at Viacom, Loria's leadership resulted in over $1 billion in ad sales for MTV Networks, and he tripled the number of on-air brands for CMT, increasing sales from $20 million to $80 million. (Source: TMCnet 2010-09-14T14:20:36Z)

Sneak Peek from Justin Bieber on CSI - Singer Interrogated by Nick Stokes

Any new viewers that CSI gains for the premiere episode, "Shock Waves" of its eleventh season will most likely be due to Justin Bieber's appearance--if the viewers are from the younger demographic, that is ... (Source: Gather.com 2010-09-12T02:34:18Z)

IFC Films explores Herzog's 'Cave'

TORONTO --- IFC Films has snapped up U.S. distribution rights to Werner Herzog's 3D docu "Cave of Forgotten Dreams." Also in Toronto, IFC's banked the first major deal of the fest with James Gunn's dark ... (Source: Variety 2010-09-16T04:59:53Z)

Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions

Private equity fund Providence Equity Partners has dropped out of the $2 billion auction of Taiwan cable operator China Network Systems Co, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. ** (Source: The Guardian 2010-09-15T20:03:01Z)

Man accused of killing Nick Adenhart in drunk driving crash fled the scene ...

Witnesses testified that Andrew Gallo , who is charged with murdering Angels' pitcher  Nick Adenhart and two others in a drunk ... 22,  Courtney Stewart, 20,  and Henry Pearson, 25. He has also pleaded not guilty ... (Source: Los Angeles Times 2010-09-15T19:12:54Z)

Reuters: Providence Equity backs out of auction for Taiwan cable operator

HONG KONG – Providence Equity Partners has backed out of the $2 billion auction of China Network Systems Co, a Taiwan cable operator, Reuters reported on Wednesday. A Reuters source with direct knowledge ... (Source: Providence Business News 2010-09-15T17:11:13Z)

California Utilities Approved for 616 Megawatts of Solar Deals

in Desert Center and San Bernardino. The projects, named Desert Sunlight ... s 66-megawatt Alpine Suntower project proposed in Riverside County, California. Power deliveries are expected to begin in 2013, (Source: Bloomberg 2010-09-03T08:42:54Z)

Prosecutor says Andrew Gallo drank for hours before killing Angels pitcher Nick ...

... Nick Adenhart and two others fled on foot, even as people gave chase and yelled at him to stop, witnesses testified. Andrew Gallo, 23 ... 20-year-old Courtney Stewart and 25-year-old Henry Pearson. He has also ... (Source: Chicago Sun-Times 2010-09-15T18:01:19Z)

Pentagon must weigh costs

The Defense Department has unveiled a surprising new plan to start reining in its supersized ... The Pentagon acquisition chief, Ashton Carter, said a program's affordability hasn't been a requirement in recent years ... (Source: Florida Today 2010-09-16T01:03:40Z)

Toronto 2010: Herzog's 'Cave' will go on display

... Werner Herzog's 3-D documentary "Cave of Forgotten Dreams." Now the company has closed the deal ... as some IFC films are. Of course, this one is in 3-D, so it probably will be better in the theater anyway. (Source: Los Angeles Times 2010-09-16T02:08:05Z)

sortingcodes.co.uk Celebrates National Payroll Week with 10% Discount on Bank Sort Codes Data

... sources. sortingcodes.co.uk also offers an electronic data file - Sorting Codes Electronic - which can be downloaded from a secure FTP site and simply integrated into an organisation's own ERP ... product demo ... (Source: Earthtimes 2010-09-06T11:16:49Z)

Pope Benedict XVI visits UK, admits failures in abuse scandal

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND — Pope Benedict XVI, beginning a controversial state visit to Britain, acknowledged Thursday that the Catholic Church failed to act decisively or quickly enough to deal with priests ... (Source: MyCentralJersey.com 2010-09-16T12:30:51Z)

Pentagon starts to bargain hunt

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Defense Department has unveiled a surprising new plan to start reining ... The Pentagon acquisition chief, Ashton Carter, said a program's affordability hasn't been a requirement in recent years ... (Source: WWLP 22News 2010-09-15T19:12:54Z)

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