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Billboard and the Country Music Association combine to open the second annual Billboard Country Music Summit from June 6-7, in Nashville. Summit highlights feature a Superstar Q&A with Carrie Underwood, and the CMA Global Artist Party. But there will also be informative panels, artist showcases, keynote addresses delivered by industry leaders, networking mixers, and more. The Closing Cocktail Reception hosted by Sony Music Nashville.
A Meeting of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) will happen during the World Copyright Summit in Brussels, June 7-8. The occasion is an international and cross-industry event addressing the future of the creative community and the entertainment business in the digital economy. Some of the slated agenda addresses: legislation and dissemination of intellectual property and creative content, creation, licensing, usage, collective management, the value of creative works, the future of authors' rights, the role of creators and their collective management organizations.
Sheffield's DocFest is a documentary film industry event hosting an industry session program and marketplace, pitching opportunities, discussion panels and filmmaker masterclasses, as well as an assortment of documentary films from across the globe. In attendance are expected to be members of the British documentary industry, including documentary and factual producers, directors, buyers, commissioners and distributors. Competitions will be organized at Sheffield Doc/Fest, which runs from June 8-12, with most pitches participating. And on a less serious note, Sheffield Doc/Fest is thought to be the only film festival in the world with its own roller disco rink, open for a June 9 party with complimentary vodka supplied by Zorokowich.
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Paul Shultz was walking along the pier of a Key West marina when he saw what looked like a rotting tomato pounding against the rocks.
The Coast Guard investigator waded ankle-deep into the water to fish out the ocean rubbish: a bright red Nikon camera, small enough to fit in the palm of his hand. Its waterproof plastic case was covered with six months' worth of crusty sea growth, but the camera itself was almost pristine when he found it May 16.
However, clues to tracking down its owner were few. So Shultz decided to test his investigative skills.
There were photos of two men preparing to scuba dive and a towheaded family nestled together on a couch. There was a mysterious relic settled deep into the sea floor. And even a puzzling video clip of splashing water that appeared to have been taken as the camera thrashed around under the control of something that wasn't human.
"There was nothing on the pictures that said this camera belongs to so and so," Shultz said.
After looking through the pictures, Shultz adopted the screen name of "Aquahound" and took his hunt online.
He uploaded the images on Scubaboard.com, hoping some diving aficionados could help identify where they were taken. Within days, the Internet sleuths had parsed the pictures and found some clues all pointing to Aruba, a Dutch island off Venezuela's coast that's 1,100 miles from Key West.
There was a plane's tail number — and a computer search showed the aircraft was in Aruba the day the photo was taken. There was a blue-roofed building that searchers pinpointed to the island using Google Earth. And there was a school poster written in Dutch.
But could the camera make such a trip? Villy Kourafalou, an associate professor of physical oceanography at the University of Miami, said such an odyssey is possible. The buoyancy of the plastic case combined with various currents could have taken the camera to Key West, she told The Associated Press in an e-mail.
With Shultz's search narrowed, the resolution came quickly. He posted the pictures on the travel websites Cruisecritic and Aruba.com, and within two days was contacted by an Aruban woman who said she recognized the children in some of the photos as classmates of her son.
She contacted the family, the de Bruins, and all the pieces came together.
"I have a smile on my face ... I can't stop laughing about it," Dick de Bruin said in a phone interview from Aruba. "It's really big news (on the island) and in Europe."
De Bruin, a sergeant in the Royal Dutch Navy, has been stationed with his family in Aruba for three years. The camera floated away from de Bruin while he and a dive team were salvaging an anchor from the USS Powell for a World War II memorial. The American ship protected Aruba, a major oil producer, from German forces during the war.
"There's a big connection between America and Aruba ... first with the anchor, and now the camera brings us together again," de Bruin said.
The camera is on its way to the de Bruin family via FedEx and should be there any day.
Shultz said he's thrilled the story is ending well — for a brief moment when he first viewed the mystery video, he feared the camera's owner had met a tragic end.
There was footage of the divers recovering the anchor, and then in the next video, "the camera started thrashing around and a fin came into the picture," Shultz said. "Then 20 seconds in I realized there was no blood."
The culprit: a hungry sea turtle trying to take a bite out of the floating camera in January, two months after it was lost. The camera's leash apparently got caught on its flipper, and the animal's splashing turned on the video camera. Shultz's best guess is that the episode happened off the coast of Honduras.
That video clip has been seen more than 200,000 times on YouTube, with viewers everywhere from Alaska to Africa to Australia. It's de Bruin's favorite part of the whole story.
"When I told people what Paul had done, they were astonished. They didn't believe it," he said. "But we have the sea turtle on film proving the camera floated from Aruba to the U.S. It's unbelievable, but it's true.";_ylt=AoPu1hIN5w0gozf0DqoBJUCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTJnaTQxYmg0BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNjE0L3VzX2N... more
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Stefany Flores Was Gay, Van Der Sloot Targeted Her For Poker Winnings, Says National Enquirer
9 June 2010
By Cindy Casares
Guanabee.com
The National Enquirer has unearthed all sorts of interesting facts about the night that Joran van der Sloot met and murdered his victim, 21 year-old Peruvian Stefany Flores. According to a private investigator for the family of Natalee Holloway, Van der Sloot was in Peru using money he extorted from the Holloway family days before.
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Joran contacted a family rep by email and offered to reveal the location of Natalee’s body for $250, 000. The FBI set up a sting in a hotel room in Aruba on May 10, and after Joran was given a $10, 000 cash down payment by the Holloway rep, he flew to Colombia and then Peru. Another $15, 000 was wired for him to a bank account in Holland.Stefany Flores Was Gay, Van Der Sloot Targeted Her For Poker Winnings, Says National... more
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Van der Sloot confesses to murder, Peruvian authorities say
By the CNN Wire Staff
June 8, 2010 1:11 a.m. EDT
Lima, Peru (CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot could be formally charged as early as Tuesday in the killing of Stephany Flores Ramirez, Peruvian government authorities said.
Van der Sloot, who confessed to murder in the case on Monday, will likely be held at one of three maximum security prisons -- Castro Castro, Piedras Gordas and Lurigancho, authorities said.
At his first court appearance, the judge may set a hearing date for van der Sloot and could order additional investigations in the case.
The Peruvian justice system often issues a lighter sentence in cases where the suspect confesses. That may have influenced his alleged confession.
Van der Sloot could get up to 35 years in prison. There is no death penalty or life sentence in Peru.
A Peruvian police report leaked Monday said Flores was found in his hotel room on the floor, half-dressed. The report provides new details about the hours before Flores' body was found.
Van der Sloot, who was twice arrested in connection with the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, is in Peruvian custody as a suspect in the killing of Flores, 21.
According to the document, the Hotel Tac, where van der Sloot was staying, received a call from someone looking for him about 11 p.m. June 1. The receptionist forwarded the call, but no one answered. The hotel worker assumed that van der Sloot was asleep because the room key was with him and not the front desk.
About an hour later, according to the police report, the receptionist noticed that van der Sloot owed money for two nights and went up to his room, where her knocks went unanswered. The television was blaring, so the hotel employee figured he was resting, the report says.
Afterward, the hotel supervisor told the employee to go back to van der Sloot's room and enter using a spare key. When the employee went in, she found Flores' body on the floor, dressed in a black T-shirt and red panties, half-covered with a piece of white clothing, the police report said.
Flores was bleeding from her nose, the report said.
The hotel employee became frightened at the sight and went to alert her supervisor and the police, turning off the television and lights on her way out of the room, the report said.
CNN's Mayra Cuevas contributed to this report
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the Peruvian police who captured international fugitive Joran van der Sloot say the smug faced, young Dutchman’s primary concern is his popularity and media exposure.the Peruvian police who captured international fugitive Joran van der Sloot say the... more
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The Billboard Country Music Summit opens June 7-8 in Nashville, and is co-presented by the Country Music Association. In a key event, Grammy Award-winning Kansas native Martina McBride takes part in a Keynote Q&A interview with Wade Jessen, Senior Chart Manager, Billboard, discussing her career, her take on the current state of the music business, and her personal observations about career longevity. The Country Music Association actually begins it’s own CMA Music Festival a couple days later, opening June 10-13 (more at http://actorschecklist.com/wordpress/?page_id=47)The Billboard Country Music Summit opens June 7-8 in Nashville, and is co-presented by... more
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AMSTERDAM (BNO NEWS)
Dutch suspect Joran van der Sloot has confessed to disposing the body of missing American student Natalee Holloway while on the Caribbean island of Aruba, a Dutch newspaper reported on Tuesday. He made the statements in front of an RTL television camera.
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The statements by van der Sloot follow a similar confession more than two years ago during an undercover operation by Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, which prosecutors said did not constitute new legal evidence.AMSTERDAM (BNO NEWS)
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A luxury romantic resort on the Caribbean island of Aruba is offering couples a £180 discount (off a future booking) if they conceive a child during their stay.
Not quite sure how one would go about proving the child was conceived on site, however a doctors note stating the likely date of conception is said to be acceptable to the company.A luxury romantic resort on the Caribbean island of Aruba is offering couples a... more
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Natalee Holloway Suspect Thai Sex Slave Trafficker?
Greta has something to do, now:
A suspect in the 2005 disappearance of an Alabama teen in Aruba is involved in selling Thai women into prostitution, a Dutch TV reporter claims.
Reporter Peter De Vries has made a second hidden-camera expose on Dutch student Joran Van der Sloot, who was believed to be with Natalee Holloway when she vanished while on a senior trip to Aruba. De Vries won an Emmy this year for another report on Van Der Sloot, 21, in which the student admits to dumping Holloway’s body after she suddenly began shaking and died as they were kissing.
De Vries’ latest report, which was shown Sunday night on Dutch television, shows Van der Sloot telling someone posing as a sex-industry boss that he can get passports for Thai women and girls who think they are going to the Netherlands to work as dancers, DutchNews.nl reported.
Van der Sloot makes about $13,000 for every woman sold into prostitution in the Netherlands, De Vries claims.
“The pictures show how little respect this 21-year-old has for the lives of others,” De Vries told a Dutch newspaper. “The fact that he goes into the trafficking of women after the disappearance of Natalee is typical of him.”Natalee Holloway Suspect Thai Sex Slave Trafficker?
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Discovered and claimed for Spain in 1499, Aruba was acquired by the Dutch in 1636.
The island's economy has been dominated by three main industries.
A 19th century gold rush was followed by prosperity brought on by the opening in 1924 of an oil refinery.
The last decades of the 20th century saw a boom in the tourism industry.
Aruba seceded from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986 and became a separate, autonomous member of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Movement toward full independence was halted at Aruba's request in 1990.
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Joran Van der Sloot will not be rearrested in connection with his hidden camera confession. Court officials on the Dutch Antillean island of Curaçao say that taped statements that he was with Holloway when she died, and that he disposed of her body, do not constitute new legal evidence.
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On the tapes, filmed with hidden cameras as Joran van der Sloot rode in a car with a friend, the Dutch teen says he met up with Holloway and her friends at a bar. He said she and her friends had been drinking heavily and that some had been doing cocaine. Van der Sloot said he and Holloway had sex on the beach, but that afterwards, she started convulsing, and then was not responding to him. He said he used a pay phone to call a friend who had a boat, and then carried her body to the boat, where the friend took her body and dumped it overboard a mile offshore.
Confronted with the video, van der Sloot is saying he was just telling the friend what he wanted to hear.On the tapes, filmed with hidden cameras as Joran van der Sloot rode in a car with a... more
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Aruba's chief public prosecutor has requested that Joran van der Sloot, a suspect in the Natalee Holloway case, be arrested for a third time.
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A former suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway threw wine in the face of a crime reporter after they appeared together on a Dutch television program.
Joran van der Sloot appeared on the late-night talk show Friday in what was billed as his last television interview about the case. Prosecutors in Aruba, where Holloway disappeared, have said they don't have enough evidence to charge him with a crime, although he remains a "person of interest" in what is now a cold case.
Van der Sloot, who denies any wrongdoing, appeared relaxed throughout the TV appearance, despite remarks from crime reporter Peter R. De Vries challenging his honesty.
At the end of the Pauw & Witteman program Van der Sloot and De Vries had a testy exchange about whether De Vries would apologize if evidence exonerating Van der Sloot came to light.
The live show ended, but NOS radio news reported Saturday that moments later, Van der Sloot threw a glass of wine in De Vries' face.
Photos taken by members of the studio audience and circulating on Dutch Web sites show Van Der Sloot throwing the wine.
Footage of the wine being tossed has not been broadcast on Dutch television. De Vries, Van der Sloot's Dutch lawyer and the show's producers could not immediately be reached for comment.
"This says something about Joran, of course," De Vries said in an interview with NOS radio broadcast Saturday.
"He doesn't have complete control over his behavior."
Show host Paul Witteman said Joran's action was "incomprehensible and incredibly stupid" because it undermines his credibility.
Holloway went missing on May 30, 2005, hours before she was to return home to Mountain Brook, Ala. She was on the final night of her school graduation trip to the island.
Van der Sloot and two other former suspects, brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, were seen leaving a bar with Holloway on the night of her disappearance.
They were questioned early in the investigation and again late last year before being released. All three deny involvement in Holloway's disappearance.
Prosecutors now say they cannot prove a crime was committed without a body, but that they believe Holloway is dead.
Extensive searches of the island turned up no trace of Holloway, who was 18 at the time of her disappearance.
Authorities in Aruba say the case against the three could be reopened if additional evidence surfaces. But if they were to go to trial now with virtually no hope of guilty verdicts, they would lose the opportunity to try them later if strong evidence emerges.
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