Vivendi told to pay Messier $23.5m

Mr Messier has asked for his golden handshake

The media company, Vivendi Universal, has been ordered to honour a $23.5m (20m euros) pay-out to its ousted chief, Jean-Marie Messier.
A New York tribunal told the Paris-based company it would have to adhere to the severance clause in Mr Messier's contract.
However, Vivendi said that it would challenge the ruling.
"After reviewing the tribunal findings, Vivendi Universal intends to challenge this decision through all available legal actions, both in France and the United States," it said in a statement.
It's indecent that Mr Messier asked and could get 20m euros for an American contract unapproved by the board of directors (Jean-Rene Fourtou, Vivendi chief executive)
Mr Messier, the former chief executive and chairman, was ousted a year ago after shareholders became increasingly angry about the company's finances and a $30bn pile of debt.

'Indecent'

Jean-Rene Fourtou, who replaced Mr Messier, described the tribunal's decision as "scandalous".
Vivendi had asked for the clause on employment termination in Mr Messier's contract to be voided.
The company also argued that the clause had not been approved by the company's board of directors.
"It's indecent that Mr Messier asked and could get 20m euros for an American contract unapproved by the board of directors when one thinks about his responsibility in the very dire situation Vivendi Universal was confronted with last summer," said Mr Fourtou.

Firesale

Since Mr Messier's departure, Mr Fourtou has put many of Vivendi's assets up for sale to reduce its debt burden.
The company is currently considering bids for its entertainment holdings in the US.
Vivendi became a media company after Mr Messier merged a French utility company with the Universal entertainment holdings of the US company Seagram in 2000.
The utility arm has since been spun off and is now known as Veolia Environnement.
The New York tribunal is a US body that provides arbitration for out-of-court settlement of disputes.

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If you wish is to find a spot on Earth where you can escape the everyday chaos and spend some time in surroundings so different from your everyday's, to feel the sea in a proper way, then you need to visit the island of Kaprije. This island, 12 miles away from the county center Sibenik and near two national parks, Krka and Kornati, offers unforgettable summer bathing, crystal clear breath-taking sea, a break in a heavy shade of a Mediterranean pine walk near the sea with that shuffling sound of pebbles and protruding smell of grilled fish. The island of Kaprije is situated in the central part of the Sibenik archipelago with the surface of 9.67km2. It was named after the Mediterranean plant kapara. In the 14th and the 15th ct. the island belonged to the families of the noblemen from Sibenik. During the Turkish invasions in this region in the 16th and the 17th ct., the refugees from the mainland inhabited Kaprije. After the retreat of the Turks, they have partly left the island. That's period when St Peter's church was built. The place is surrounded by the hills among wich the highest is Velika glavica 132m above the sea level. The island vegetation comprises grass and bushes and very rare pine forests. At the foot of those hills there are some smaller fields where mainly olives and grapes are cultivated. Besides the agriculture the inhabitants are also known as skilled fishermen and seamen and lately also, as hospitable hosts. Naturally sheltered from all the winds, on its northeastern side, the port ok Kaprije enables safe berthing to the numerous yachts and to the yachtsmen offers relaxation and good local specialities. As it is well connected with sibenik, besides the seamen, kaprije attracts many visitors and tourists by its beauty, its sea rich in all kinds of fish and its hidden coves. Residents of the island of Kaprije hosted the most unusual guests last week. More then twenty dolphins occupied Kaprije's cove! Those dear animals didn't mind human' company at all so soon many people were swimming near them. Tourists from the nearby yachts hurried to testify this rear occasion, this life-time opportunity... to swim with beautiful dolphins...

George W. Bush to go in Africa from 7 to 12 of July: Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Ouganda and Nigeria.

MERCREDI 18 JUIN 2003

LA CASA 128

128, rue Lafayette - Paris - France (Underground station: "Gare du Nord")

SEVEN TO ONE

FOR PEOPLE WORKING ON THURSDAY

21h04 : Poulossiawa.com stupid accoustic

22h56 : Crevard Club All Star funk végétalien, featuring Jean-Pôl Trônic

ONE TO SEVEN

FOR PEOPLE THEY CAN SLEEP THE WHOLE THURSDAY

01h12 : Dj wizard of gore massacre on the dance floor

Entrance 15€

Amelia Vega is Miss Universe 2003

We will rock U... @ Cannes festival. Please be our guest and click onto the pic to enter in my very special Cannes photo blog.

Every time I will meet an original event, I will take a picture with my t68i mobile phone and send it directly to the web.

Feel free to contact me by phone, ringing the +33 6 72 47 79 35. I won't check emails during the 10 crazy days.

If you have any problem contacting the main site you can click here to connect to the mirror site.

Everything seems to be OK now onto READY2.INFO main website. Welcome back !

Again... Unlucky !
As my home linux box was under attack and forced me to a major upgrade, the ready2.free.fr server was too in a bad situations because of maintenance on the free web site.
So the situation is that i will blog mainly from US blog this week, despite of all those f*cking things that turrns me crazy.
Also my "work242" zone will be enforced and renewed, to better security and overviews facilities.
Hey, time is going crazy fast : only 13 days before the big jump to the festival de cannes !

The personals service of the Onion is changing now
Em and Lo (Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey) are contributing editors at Nerve.com, where they created the weekly sex and relationships column, "The Em & Lo Down: Advice from Near-Experts." Launched almost three years ago, it's now syndicated on most of Spring Street Networks' personals partner sites. In addition, they write weekly horoscopes for Nerve and Spring Street Networks, and a weekly column debunking sex myths for the UK newspaper the Guardian. Their first book, The Big Bang: Nerve's Guide to the New Sexual Universe is forthcoming from Plume in July 2003, and is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. They both live in New York City where they spend far too much time together.

Em & Lo are not doctors, psychiatrists, or even particularly wise in matters of the heart and other organs. These answers are meant as entertainment. Well, they entertain us. We hope they entertain you.

(special dedicace for my brother Emmanuel ;-)

Let's have a look to the website we'll use at the 56th festival of Cannes :

http://cannes2003.free.fr/

The site will be automatically updated every hour, receiving news from my mobile phone with exclusives pictures taken on the rush.

At the Copenhagen European Council, we successfully completed the accession negotiations with the 10 candidate countries and we set the goal to sign the Accession Treaty in Athens, on April 16th 2003.

The Greek Presidency has completed in time the drafting of the Accession Treaty, in accordance with the relevant procedures by the institutions of the Union.

Rendez-vous in Athens for the historical event of the ceremony of the signature of the Accession Treaty.

The enlarged Union guarantees a future of peace, stability and prosperity for its members and neighbours.

A discussion on issues pertaining to the Convention was initially planned for the spring European Council.

Consequently, in the morning of the 16th, at 9:30, the President of the European Parliament, Mr P.Cox and at 10:00, the President of the Convention, Mr Giscard d’Estaing, will present his report on the progress of the deliberations of the Convention.

As the Convention has reached the final and decisive stage of its deliberations, in agreement with President Giscard d’Estaing, the express of the views on the following five main institutional issues:

• how to ensure a greater continuity in the presidency of the European Council and the other formations of the Council
• the size and the composition of the European Commission (after the enlargement to 27 members)
• the nomination and the powers of the President of the Commission
• the nomination and the powers of an eventual “Foreign Minister”
• the role of an eventual formation (Conference/Congress), composed by representatives of the national parliaments and of the European Parliament.

This meeting will finish at 12:00. At 13:00, a lunch will take place at Zappeion Hall/Aigli, attended also by the Foreign Ministers.

The three candidate countries, which are not included in the present enlargement, will be present at the ceremony of signature.

The ceremony will take place in the Stoa of Attalos, close to the Acropolis, in the afternoon of the 16th of April, at 15:15, in accordance with the organizational arrangements.

Short addresses by the 25 Heads of State and/or Government, as well as by the Presidents of the European Parliament and the European Commission.

Upon conclusion of each speech, the two plenipotentiaries will proceed to the signature.

At 17:30, the family photograph. In the evening of the same day (April 16th), at 22:00, sit down at the official dinner at Astir Palace Hotel/Vouliagmeni, near Athens, offered by the President of the Hellenic Republic in honour of Heads of State and Government and Foreign Ministers.

The following day, April 17th, the European Conference in Athens, at the level of Heads of State and/or Government.

Thus, fulfillment of a commonly agreed commitment.

The European Conference will take place at Zappeion Hall, at 10:00.

This occasion is appropriate for the members of the Conference to express their views on the relations of the enlarged Union with its neighbours.

An invitation is extended to all states, whose participation is provided for by successive Conclusions of European Councils, including Switzerland, the EFTA countries, those of the Stabilization and Association Process, Ukraine and Moldova.

Russia will be among us.

The European Conference will have only a morning session.

At 12:15, family photograph.

A lunch will follow at Zappeion Hall/Aigli, at 13:45, attended also by the Foreign Ministers.

Is also invited to the European Conference, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan, who has accepted to attend and to address the meeting.

See you in Athens, so that you may participate in these important events for our countries and for the future of Europe.

For over 20 years, the greatest threat to Iraqis has been Saddam Hussein's regime -- he has killed, tortured, raped and terrorized the Iraqi people and his neighbors for over two decades.

Under Saddam's regime many hundreds of thousands of people have died as a result of his actions - the vast majority of them Muslims. According to a 2001 Amnesty International report, "victims of torture in Iraq are subjected to a wide range of forms of torture, including the gouging out of eyes, severe beatings and electric shocks... some victims have died as a result and many have been left with permanent physical and psychological damage."

Announcements: Round 6 is underway! The prize this month is your choice of a portable DVD player, X-Box, or $200 cash! Updates: We added a role-playing league for players who do not want to lose their character stats at the end of the round. Click here for more information about the role-playing league! Changes: You can now purchase batches of 100 points for only $5, click here! Use points to remove ads, upgrade your character, and get a jump in Round 6! New free point offers are now available. The bank now has a capacity of $10 Million. The bank was intended to help players save money for better items, not as a safe haven for all player funds. The bank capacity is upgradeable in the point store. The attack formula has been tweaked to be more fair and fun for all players. When finding a player to attack, they will be ranked by "Power Rating" which is the players power including item bonuses. This will make it easier to find people to attack around your range.

At outwar.com you can create a monster, a gangster, or a pop star and build their fame, power, and riches. Once you create your character, you build them by getting friends to click your secret link. The more people you get to click the link, the more money your character will generate. Attack other players for money, band together with friend, even gamble at the casino. The players with the most money at the end of the game win, this is an all out war!

we will blog you from Le Havre :-)

if something happen... it is this week end...

Bagdad is waiting...

Christopher Dickey
"We Will Turn Bush Into a Dog"
The Americans badly miscalculated by believing that the Iraqis would welcome them as liberators
NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE
Dogs do not live happy lives in Iraq. Considered “unclean” by Muslims and rarely kept as pets, most of those that you see are feral curs slinking through the streets late at night

jo, i am happy to see you here in ready2.blog ! please feel free to go straight in each time you want to talk to the world :-)

I've got tons of people could go through with suicide bombs........houston you have a problem...

ABC News
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FOX News

Thank you, great leader George W. Bush

March 18, 2003

By Paulo Coelho

Thank you for showing everyone what a danger Saddam Hussein represents.

Many of us might otherwise have forgotten that he used chemical weapons against his own people, against the Kurds and against the Iranians. Hussein is a bloodthirsty dictator and one of the clearest expressions of evil in today's world.

But this is not my only reason for thanking you. During the first two months of 2003, you have shown the world a great many other important things and, therefore, deserve my gratitude. So, remembering a poem I learned as a child, I want to say thank you.

Thank you for showing everyone that the Turkish people and their parliament are not for sale, not even for 26 billion dollars.

Thank you for revealing to the world the gulf that exists between the decisions made by those in power and the wishes of the people. Thank you for making it clear that neither José María Aznar nor Tony Blair give the slightest weight to or show the slightest respect for the votes they received. Aznar is perfectly capable of ignoring the fact that 90% of Spaniards are against the war, and Blair is unmoved by the largest public demonstration to take place in England in the last thirty years.

Thank you for making it necessary for Tony Blair to go to the British parliament with a fabricated dossier written by a student ten years ago, and present this as 'damning evidence collected by the British Secret Service.

Thank you for allowing Colin Powell to make a complete fool of himself by showing the UN Security Council photos which, one week later, were publicly challenged by Hans Blix, the chief weapons inspector in Iraq.

Thank you for adopting your current position and thus ensuring that, at the plenary session, the French foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin's anti-war speech was greeted with applause - something, as far as I know, that has only happened once before in the history of the UN, following a speech by Nelson Mandela.

Thank you too, because, after all your efforts to promote war, the normally divided Arab nations were, for the first time, at their meeting in Cairo during the last week in February, unanimous in their condemnation of any invasion.

Thank you for your rhetoric stating that 'the UN now has a chance to demonstrate its relevance', a statement which made even the most reluctant countries take up a position opposing any attack on Iraq.

Thank you for your foreign policy which provoked the British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, into declaring that in the 21st century, 'a war can have a moral justification', thus causing him to lose all credibility.

Thank you for trying to divide a Europe that is currently struggling for unification; this was a warning that will not go unheeded.

Thank you for having achieved something that very few have so far managed to do in this century: the bringing together of millions of people on all continents to fight for the same idea, even though that idea is opposed to yours.

Thank you for making us feel once more that though our words may not be heard, they are at least spoken - this will make us stronger in the future.

Thank you for ignoring us, for marginalising all those who oppose your decision, because the future of the Earth belongs to the excluded.

Thank you, because, without you, we would not have realized our own ability to mobilize. It may serve no purpose this time, but it will doubtless be useful later on.

Now that there seems no way of silencing the drums of war, I would like to say, as an ancient European king said to an invader: 'May your morning be a beautiful one, may the sun shine on your soldiers' armors, for in the afternoon, I will defeat you.'

Thank you for allowing us - an army of anonymous people filling the streets in an attempt to stop a process that is already underway - to know what it feels like to be powerless and to learn to grapple with that feeling and transform it. So, enjoy your morning and whatever glory it may yet bring you.

Thank you for not listening to us and not taking us seriously, but know that we are listening to you and that we will not forget your words.

Thank you, great leader George W. Bush.

Thank you very much.

Paulo Coelho

If there is any use of biological weapon, France and other countries may change their point of view about the war. Take care. We could go in serious troubles then.

President Bush Addresses the Nation

In an address to the nation Wednesday night, President Bush said, "My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger."

48 hours...

PEPITTO> SO GUYS ARE YOU WITH OR AGAINST THIS WAR AGAINST IRAQ

PEPITTO> ?

GeAnDeR> no war?

Luis^Figo> Against

Luis^Figo> but it will be

PEPITTO> LUIS ARE YOU SPANISH?

PEPITTO> GEANDER WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

GeAnDeR> PEPITTO> brazil and you?

PEPITTO> LEBANON

PEPITTO> LUIS WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

> pepitto

Luis^Figo> Rep. of Moldova

> to answer to your question ...

> we are together on the same planet, and *if* a war occurs we will be all together

> then...

> dead or alive is the question

> and i definitly hope to survive

Luis^Figo> and we will figth together

GeAnDeR> The Usa  they should not attack Iraq

Luis^Figo> Hope alive

* bc singing... lallala i will survive///

Luis^Figo> we all will survive

> U.N. rulez

Luis^Figo> I dreamed about war

> dangerous yes

> i don't like to be managed like they manage

GeAnDeR> he wants the petroleum

Luis^Figo> He wants to get control on Iraq, egypt siria.....

GeAnDeR> yes...

GeAnDeR> he wants to get the world

GeAnDeR> :D

> the main problem is about energy... and water.. petroleum, pfff, we have to burn it less

> petroleum is a very ancient energy from our oldest earth

> burning it is like to burn dinosaur's spirit

> and then occurs problems with athmosphere

> fuck, i just want to BREATHE

GeAnDeR> of here the little, he will invade the brasil because of Amazonia

> trees are our parents

French President Jacques Chirac has agreed to sit down with Christiane Amanpour for an interview Sunday at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Click on the picture to go to CBS

The blackout has began in Bagdad. No phone communication are allowed now. The 5 helicopters of inspectors has been removed from the territory because of a shutdown of the insurances. War is like for tomorrow.

Jacques Chirac on CBS and CNN @ 19:00 New York Time

LUCKY

it works back ;-) READY2.INFO

UNLUCKY

The READY2.INFO is unavailable due to a falilure of the DNS of my provider. Never the less, the direct connection to ready2.free.fr is working perfectly.
As the support@gandi.net address is not working, I can do nothing except saying to people to connect to one of our working servers:

http://ready2.free.fr

http://ready2.blogspot.com

http://bcadiou.free.fr/
Sorry for the inconvenience. But when you are working for free without money to pay a private line, here what's happening...

Because we love to be clear with what's really happening on my site, there is a "AllAbout Page.

PHOTOGRAPHY.READY2.FREE.FR is under construction...

Enjoy!! -
READY2.INFO is back !

OUF YESS IT WORKS !!!

After naughty hours of debugging, I finally found the bug and everything is going really better since the main READY2.INFO central page is online. Tomorrow the mailing list work to say people they can come back again. Everybody is welcome, so fell free to join us on our central site :

http://READY2.INFO

http://READY2.FREE.FR

It is very difficult to find the bug, I think about reinstalling all dacode from the scratch...

there is a huge work in front of me : in the real world, I have to finish this hardware work on my "electro kitchen" project. Thus, in the virtual world wide web, there is a lot to come soon :

Dizain

PhpGraphy

Dacode *** The most important ***
But there is enough for today.

wow now you can Submit a news to ready2.info ... hum, we still have problems to display the main layout... keep on da good work...

back to the hardware. today I have some special work on the hardware "electro kitchen". i have to put more than 7 electric plugs in my wall. mmm. i think i'll just design the holes today. the 404 error message you'll get on ready2.free.fr is under engineering...

READY2.FREE.FR is at the point of coming up soon...

always exists !

Don't cry

The READY2.INFO service was shutted down yesterday du to a new restriction from my cable ISP "noos" that blocked definitly ports 80 (web) and 25 (e-mail) and so on...


That's why you may experience difficulties to connect to our servers --- be sure we will put the News system "dacode" on an other server within few days.

OK it looks like we are getting severe troubles now. My Internet access provider did just filter packets on our main server READY2.INFO and I am seeking right now a safe place to host my linux box. Hey, is that liberty ? Now if I want to continue to host the server at my place I have to pay a $100 fee for a month. And $30 extra if I want an fix IP. No definitly I can't stand anymore. I am getting out of this game. I have the week to find the right solution and keep people awarned that freedom is very precious nowadays. Peace...

It looks like the blog is under work today (logins are not displayed)

fishes in my fishtank turned crazy. they made love... and war! 2 baby fishes were born today, as 2 others died probably by fight...

super. today i have relooked the site in order to be more attractive to new people that they connect from the entire world :-) hey... i's a web !

Weblogs are going Googling.

What time is it in yours ears ?

salut la bande

A new style sheet has been published today.

Notice : this web is on GMT time

this is the beginning of *LIsting, a web based directory listing application

OK lets do it in english !
This weblog is dedicated to http://ready2.info/ website.
We will try to keep here an english version of the french "independant news on da net" website
Enjoy ;-)

ready2.info !