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Monday 25 February 2008

Chris Cantell annouces Is U.S. dollar worthless piece of paper?

Third full summit of the heads of 13 member states and delegates of OPEC took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Sunday. The main question of the summit was supposed to be the impact of the oil industry on the environment. As it shined up during the meeting, the U.S. Dollar value appeared as more important issue to deal with. There are countries such as Iran and its ally Venezuela that consider U.S. dollar "worthless piece of paper" as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said to the reporters after the end of the summit. U.S. dollar has been historically the currency that always paid for world's oil. Since 9/11 the value of American money is enormously depreciating. This fact influences the value of world oil reserves and the countries that provides petroleum in the world market are loosing their money. Changing the currency can also seem like a political issue considering attitudes of Iran towards President Bush and his politics. When I am thinking about it and trying to find the motivation of making such a big decision in OPEC as changing the currency that always has been legal tender in the gas industry, it must be real. It is incontrovertible fact that U.S. dollar is falling down with the speed no one like to see. But is this really the reason to change the currency and set up new rules that will proclaim American weakness? There still are allies of the United States that will keep the currency on. The question is for how long they are able to face the tense of the world's low oil praises and sequential rising prices for common people?

Written by Natalia Holvova Edited by Zuzana Tylkova
These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

Chris Cantell annouces Virgin is set to buy Northern Rock

It may seem like an ordinary investment for them and a strange one for most people, but the Virgin company has decided to dive right into the financial market and buy itself a bank. They are determined to own Northern Rock, a traditional bank in the United Kingdom, which they will integrate into the Virgin Money brand. Northern Rock has been severely hit by the mortgage crisis sweeping the United States and customers have lost confidence in it, rushing to withdraw their deposits. The British government has tried to help it in its hour of need, by pouring $40 billion in its reserves, but it seems it was not enough to keep it alive enough for it to recover. The bank will be sold at a discount, or be nationalized, as no bidders agreed to pay the sum owned to the state as well as the bank itself. Right now, Northern Rock stock is worth 1 British pound and bidders include J.C. Flowers & Company, the U.S. private equity company Cerberus and Olivant Advisers of London, apart from Virgin. But it is only Richard Branson's company that came up with a detailed plan on how to save the bank, including repaying some of the debt in the beginning. Bidders exist, but it will ultimately be shareholders who are set to lose the most no matter what the decision is. In the meantime, customers' money is protected by pumping billions and Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer, is taking most of the blame for the way things evolved at Northern Rock.

Written by Corina Ciubotaru Edited by Zuzana Tylkova
These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

Chris Cantell annouces Blockbuster getting digital

Despite the fact that technology is usually seen as Blockbuster Inc.'s enemy, Blockbuster CEO James Keyes still hopes that with new changes to the company customers will end up burning movies on CDs or other devices in Blockbuster's kiosks. He adds that store rentals will be an important part of the business for at least five more years even if it won't be the world's biggest movie-rental company. For him technology should be used to transform the company according to the changes that take place nowadays, because they already have the advantage to be the best-known brands in the world. Blockbuster is synonym to renting movies because of the 8000 stores owned. However, business has not been that great lately, making the company to lose more than $4 billion from 2002 through 2005. Keys, CEO from July, gave an interview to AP revealing the steps that will be taken In order to increase the company's profit (stores will get kiosks that eventually could be used to download movies, will begin transmitting movies to customers' PCs, will test new sales of small electronic devices, soundtrack CDs and books to reduce its dependence on the stagnant movie-rental business). If his plans impressed the readers, it did not impress the investors at the meeting held in New York last week. Keys the one that has on his list of problems to be fixed financial losses, junk-status debt, and a setback in its mail-delivery rental business, did not handled correctly the matter of explaining. The company's fall started in 2004 and afterwards each year the sales have slipped and stores rentals eroded. Netflix Inc. is the main rival and it reached 7 millions subscribers due to the rental orders on the Internet for mail delivery. It's hard to be toped out, because Blockbuster built its own mail-delivery service with heavy investment that led to a fight between the former CEO John Antioco and the company's largest shareholder, Carl Icahn. Now chief financial officer, chief operating officer, general counsel and the manager of the online business have also left the company and there is a staff problem too. So the main problem identified by keys was the desire to catch up Netflix that eventually got them $29 million loss as a consequence of the service called Total Access (all-you-can-watch feature). Therefore his first action as CEO was to limit the free in-store exchanges unless customers paid an extra $7 per month, but that led to the reducing of subscribers to 3.1 million. Michael Pachter, an analyst for Wedbush Morgan Securities and bullish on Blockbuster, states that the solution might be that Keyes and Chief Financial Officer Thomas M. Casey focus more on Blockbuster's short-term issues and do a better job explaining their strategy to Wall Street. Stay connected and see what's happening next.

Written by Claudia Sonea Edited by Zuzana Tylkova
These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

Chris Cantell annouces Azheimer frange inimi

Ei bine, daca ati vrut vreodata sa va inselati partenerul de viata si sa scapati nepedepsiti, acum aveti ocazia: Alzheimer. Dincolo de orice gluma, problema este una serioasa si a fost facuta publica de fostul Judecator al Curtii Supreme Sandra Day O'Connor cum ca bolnavii de Alzheimer pot adesea avea aventuri uitand de partenerul de viata. Sotul ei este pacient al unei clinici din Arizona si are o relatie cu o alta pacienta suferind de aceeasi boala. In loc sa condamne aventura sotul ei si sa recurga la divort, Linda a tinut o conferinta de presa si a vorbit despre problema pentru a adduce atentia asupra unei laturi mai putin cunoscute a bolii mentale degenerative. Unul din cei trei fii O'Conners, Scott, a declarat ca in mod admirabil mama san u s-a plans, ci a fost fericita ca sotul ei a renuntat la ideile de sinucidere si depresile pe care le avea inainte de aceasta romanta. Nu este singura in aceasta situatie, experti precum Rubin Dessel, directoare al unui serviciu de ingrijire a memoriei la clinica Hebrew Home din New York confirma faptul ca pacientii cu Alzheimer datorita pierderii memoriei traiesc doar in prezent si nu este ceva neobisnuit sa inceapa relatii amoroase. Totusi, ei nu sunt siguri de cat de des se poate intampla si Peter Reed, director de programe la Asociatia Alzheimer spune ca acest tip de relatii sunt de cele mai multe ori infantile, reducandu-se doar la tinutul de maini. Nu este exclus sa devina fizica. Familia este cea care de obicei sufera din cauza acestei relatii si adesea pacientul se simte ranit daca a avut o relatie/casnicie fericita inainte. Dessel declara ca nu poate fi numita infidelitate si de asemenea lauda atitudinea lui O'Connor care si-a dedicate viata sotul ei care sufera de Alzheimer de 17 ani si accepta relatia chiar daca asta o face sa sufere pentru binele sotului ei. Intr-adevar actiunile ei ar trebui sa fie un model pentru toti cei care se confrunta cu asemenea problema.

Chris Cantell annouces Dezastrul din Bangladesh a facut mii de victime

O furtuna puternica a omorat mai bine de 3000 de oameni in Bangladesh si a lasat milioane fara case in timpul saptamanii trecute. Ciclonul Sidr a sters de pe fata pamantului sate intregi, a distrus colibe si a smuls acoperisuri, strivind si oameni sub daramaturi. Cel putin 1000 de victime probabil vor mai fi gasite in mare si in raul din apropiere in zilele urmatoare, insa efortul de reconstructie a inceput deja, guvernul alocand 5,2 milioane de dolari care pot fi suplimentati cu ajutoare de la Statele Unite, Natiunile Unite, Franta, Germania si Uniunea Europeana daca Bangladesh se decide sa mai ceara bani. Guvernul are incredere ca va fi capabil sa rezolve problema si sa recosntruiasca casele, problema cea mai mare acum fiind ajutoarele pe termen scurt, cum ar fi mancarea si apa. ONU intentioneaza sa intensifice in curand operatiunile de ajutor. Nivelul distrugerilor nu este atat de mare cum se banuia initial dar din cauza terenului jos si a calitatii materialelor de constructie din zona, reconstructia va dura mult timp si va si scumpa. Intinderi mari de teren arabil au fost afectate si previziunile nu sunt deloc pozitive, mai ales fiindca fermele cu fost deja inundate serios in august. Lucratorii de la Semiluna Rosie si o echipa militara americana sunt deja la locul dezastrului, ajutand oamenii din aceasta zona saraca a Bangladeshului. Tara a fost afectata in trecut de o furtuna tropicala, care a luat 140.000 de vieti in 1991; de atunci, au fost construite sisteme de alarma care sa ajute oamenii sa scape de furia naturii.

Thursday 21 February 2008

U.S. economic stimulus package

For the last few weeks there was a sharp fall on global economic market, what caused big pressure on local markets of economy. US financial system, as one of the biggest all over the world, was affected, too. And this is the reason, why there is a need to hurry in accepting economic stimulus package. President George W. Bush in collaboration with top lawyers of the America made an agreement, that in next few weeks they should, unconditionally, authorize new economic package. "Our definition of 'soon,' obviously, is in the next few weeks," said Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. He also assigned the date to be the week of February 18. The need of accepting economic stimulus package confirmed Bush by the words: "All of us understand that we need to work together. All of us understand that we need to do something that'll be effective. And all of us understand that now's the time to work together to get a package done." The purpose of this document is not to achieve a recession or increase in the economic indicators, as there was a little slowdown, but anyway it was a slowdown. "This is a flexible, this is a resilient, this is a dynamic economy, and the entrepreneurial spirit is high. But there is some uncertainty that we're going to have to deal with," said Bush. All the parties believe that they will reach the agreement on this stimulus package, soon.

Edited by: Lydia Jasenska

These news are brought to you by CantellTV, it's technology partner SigEx Telecom and it’s founder Christopher M. Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers.

The most famous stock exchange.

Its definitely the New York Stock Exchange. When you say stock exchange the first thing you think about is the New York building. Big, old building with marbles in the front. After 9/11 there is huge American flag on the marbles. You don't think about London, Tokio or Bombay stock exchange. Yes, these are important too, some of them are more powerful and bigger, but still they are not as famous as this one. So how did it start? First original Stock Exchange in New York was, and still is, located at Wall Street, which is by the way, known as one of the richest streets in the world. Every wealthy and good company has to have their headquarters at Wall Street. So the first SE started with 24 stock brokers and that time was called New York Stock and Exchange Board. A little too long name don't you think so? They had to rent their place for 200 $, but after Great Fire in the city it was moved to temporary building. They changed the name, to these days used New York Stock Exchange. But the SE was increasing so they needed bigger place to be able to work, so they decided to build a new building. The new and now so famous building was opened in 1901, It was one of the biggest places in the city. Some buildings and floors were added later, the last one in 2000, and some trading rooms were closed, because of increasing of electronic trading. In 1978 was the main building written to the list of national Historic Landmark, which contains buildings, structures or other object which are historic important or significant.