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links for 2010-07-14

  • Response to Consultation and Decision – Scope of Premium Rate Services Regulation
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  • "I've always said that the 2014 World Cup faces three major problems," said Ricardo Teixeira, the long-term president of the CBF (Brazil's FA) at an event last week to launch the tournament logo. "The first is airports, the second is airports and the third is airports."
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  • One night in the early 1990s Nash Edgerton, about 20 years old and struggling as an electrical-engineering student, awoke with an inspiration.

    “I should be a stunt man,” Mr. Edgerton recalled thinking.

    It was the beginning of Blue-Tongue Films, one of the unlikelier phenomena in the unpredictable world of independent film.

    Blue-Tongue, a loose-jointed Australian moviemaking collective, is now flooding American festivals, the awards circuit and those who look for Hollywood’s next big thing with its rough-and-tumble fare, and can now add an Oscar nomination to its résumé.

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