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If it is decided to make a movie or documentary : ROGUE TRADER 2 : THE FRENCH CONNECTION, I am certain that one of my e-mails will be included, possibly the “mother of all coincidences". A farewell message from me to all my colleagues, an e-mail from Sept. 2006, mentioning “remember Barings", and “remember Enron". And I got reprimanded for it!, and forced to state that my message was not specifically aimed at SG, nor implying slack controls. The e-mail is perhaps, like a said, a big coincidence?? The e-mail, with it's subsequent reprimand, of which I have a copy, and my retract, should be on record at Societe Generale head office, and definitely at S.G. CYPRUS, where I was a Branch Manager for 8 months. .
Comcast: we’ll loose TV subs
We will fight in the streets and do everything we can for retention but I think the expectation that I have is we will lose some share in the video side," said Angelakis.
In the third quarter, Comcast posted a 54% drop in quarterly profit as it lost more basic video subscribers than expected.
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Bis launch line up, prices
From Sotires Eleftheriou in Paris
The AB group has concluded a range of deals ahead of its launch of the low cost satellite platform Bis Television next week. The basic Bis package costs just E4.90 a month for 25 channels, with film and adult add-on options costing an extra E4.90 a month each. AB has just concluded a deal with the Arabic platform ART to include its channels as a further option.
Underserved Markets Serve Mediacom Well
I still have it today. I own 24% of the company's A stock and I own all the B stock, which gives me 75% voting control of the company." Mediacom's first big acquisition came in 1998, when it purchased US Cable from Cablevision Systems Corp. The properties served 260,000 customers in 10 states and quadrupled Mediacom's subscriber base. By the following year, Mediacom had purchased Triax Communication and Zylstra, doubling the company's size again to 725,000 customers in 21 states. Commisso's acquisitions slowed until 2000 when the company went public and was able to use that security to buy systems serving 800,000 customers from AT&T Broadband. The deal doubled Mediacom's reach one more time, to 1.5 million customers, making it the No. 8 U.S. cable MSO. (It could slip to No.
Area: 9,596,961 sq. km.
The Chinese media mobilised in 2002 to ensure that Jiang Zemin entered the pantheon of great Chinese leaders. The preparations for the 16th Congress of the Communist Party gave rise to intense ideological campaigns and more crackdowns on cyber-dissidents. Self-censorship increased in Hong Kong, which is used to more freedom, and its authorities prepared to pass a "national security" law that bodes ill for freedom of the press and expression.
The end of President Jiang Zemin's mandate and the arrival of Hu Jintao at the helm of the state spawned a vast propaganda campaign in the Chinese media. In June, the government addressed a 32-point memorandum to the main news media defending the line of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on news reporting. The media were required to promote a "suitable climate" in the run-up to the congress and sensitive subjects such as privatisation or class conflict were banned.
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I say the community should accept his apology. We were waiting for him to take this crucial step in helping the city move on. Now, he has done so. Sure, Chavonne should have apologized earlier. He acknowledged as much in a radio interview Friday on WIDU. And certainly any mea culpa can be picked over as to what he could have said and what he left out. For instance, I don’t think people had a problem with Chavonne going to the hospital to see a friend. He’s human, and that was a very human thing to do. But overall, I think the mayor struck the right conciliatory tone in his op-ed piece. The tone was polar opposite of the defiant stand he took at Tuesday night’s meeting. He wrote in Friday’s edition that he "lost sight" of the important role perception plays in his actions.
Heritage Exhibition draws huge crowd
Chennai, Jan. 26 Southern Railway Head Quarters was turned into a carnival ground on the Republic Day as families and children roamed around looking at an array of vintage locomotives, a 19th century railway coach, and a 141-year-old Bronze Bell that were on display at Heritage Exhibition.
Visitors were allowed to climb on to two locomotives - a 1954 model Loco ZP4 and 1903 made Loco PL 691 - that are on permanent display at the zonal head quarters. The Loco PL 691 was used for 89 years in the narrow gauge section between Naupada-Parlakimadi-Gunpur of West Bengal before it was withdrawn in 1992 and was brought to Chennai in 1994 for display.
One of the surviving 19th Century teak-wood railway coach made in Carriage and Wagon Workshop in Perambur was also on display.
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