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Preste Maia | Opening in Los Angeles August 9

2008-08-09T20:40:00.002Z

Prestes Maia:

Opening August 9 6pm to 8pm
August 9 to October 3 2008

Alegria Gallery

2737 W Sunset Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90026

323.454.4200

9to5 MF

A Diary of Exclusion

The Alegria Gallery, from Art for Shelter, will be exhibiting a group of photographs from the Prestes Maia essay. These images are fragments of a visual diary that Tatiana Cardeal has been keeping at the Prestes Maia occupation at the heart of the city of Sao Paulo, during almost three years (2005 to 2007).

The site was considered the largest vertical occupation in Latin America. The building was an old textile factory abandoned more than 20 years ago, and the owners owe millions in taxes to the municipal government. Some 2.000 people were living there, members of the Downtown Homeless Movement, which is led by 10 women from various occupied sites in the city. The groups, well organized, articulated are formed by thousands of people who formerly lived on the street, in squares or under bridges and overpasses. Like an army without shelter, they founded the Homeless Movement not only as a way to struggle for the right to housing, but to restore their own dignity, unraveled by lack of care and social segregation.

These photos are fragments of this history of Sao Paulo society, where the author Tatiana Cardeal is born.

United we stand (2006) / Texte en français sur READY2.INFO / Prestes Maia Wikipedia

Light Painting

2008-07-31T09:19:00.001Z

Light Painting, première mise en ligne par jurvetson.

This picture taken by one of my most favorite flickr photographer shows the trajectory of a naughty rocket illuminated by leds. Steve said : 14 seconds, f2.8, 16mm, ISO 800 Canon 5D, bulb mode, manual focus done !

ENPS mobile : Yes, it works !

2007-10-03T14:52:00.000Z

ENPS Mobile Suite allows newsroom users to stay connected everywhere in the world via the web and mobile technologies. With the SnapFeed system a pocket PC may send video material to the newsroom, then any journalist can act for breaking news from anywhere. The MOS protocol make it available on air at a glance. From any internet computer, it is easy to access the ENPS web to edit the scripts, rundowns and assignement data.

Studio Broadcast TV

2007-09-19T15:12:00.000Z

Here is a few list of partners around the world of TV broadcast we are used to work with in our studios :

Advanced Television http://www.advanced-television.com/
Alpermann + Velte http://www.alpermann-velte.com/
AEQ http://www.aeq.eu/
Akamaï http://www.akamai.com/
AP http://ap.com/
Autoscript http://www.autoscript.tv/
Barix http://www.barix.com/
BBC Training http://www.bbctraining.com/
Canford http://www.canford.co.uk/
Chyron http://www.chyron.com/
Clipway http://www.clipway.com/
Doremi http://www.doremitechno.com/
Dubai Studio City http://www.dubaistudiocity.ae/
EBU http://www.ebu.ch/
Eurovision http://www.eurovision.net/
EutelSat http://www.eutelsat.com/
Evertz http://www.evertz.com/
EVS http://www.evs.tv/
Ewa Marine http://www.ewa-marine.com/
Eyeka http://www.eyeka.com/
Fisher Connectors http://www.fischerconnectors.com/
GearHouse Broadcast http://www.gearhousebroadcast.com/
Globecast http://www.globecast.com/
Harris http://www.broadcast.harris.com/
Intervox http://www.intervox.com/
IP TV World Series http://www.iptvworldseries.com/
ITN Source http://www.itnsource.com/
Lemo http://www.lemo.com/index.jsp
Le Pôle Nord Parisien http://www.lepole.org/
Lux Media Plan http://www.hd1100.com/
Lvl http://www.lvlstudio.com/
Manfrotto http://www.manfrotto.com/
Marshall http://www.marshall-usa.com/
Matrox http://www.matrox.com/video/
MediaFlo http://www.mediaflo.com/
Meteo Graphics http://www.meteo-graphics.com/
Meteo Services http://www.meteoservices.be/
Mier http://www.mier.es/
Miranda http://www.miranda.com/
NagraVision http://www.nagra.com/
Never No http://never.no/
Nokia http://www.mobiletv.nokia.com/
Omneon http://www.omneon.com/
Open TV http://www.opentv.com/
Orad http://www.orad.tv/
Phonak http://www.phonak-communications.com/
Red Bee http://www.redbeemedia.com/
Schoeps http://www.schoeps.de/
SGT http://www.sgt.eu/
Snell & Wilcox http://www.snellwilcox.com/
Sony http://www.sonybiz.net/media
SMPTE http://smpte.org.au/
Streaming Media Europe http://www.streamingmedia.com/europe/
Tektronix http://www.tek.com/
Telos http://www.telos-systems.com/
TSL http://www.tsl.co.uk/
VCF http://www.vcf-tournage.fr/
Vidcad http://www.vidcad.com/
Vinten http://www.vinten.com/
Vinten Radamec http://www.vintenradamec.com/
Visual Impact http://www.visualsfrance.com/
Whypi http://whypi.fr/
Wohler http://www.wohler.com/

Popkomm : the international business platform for music and entertainement

2007-09-19T05:43:00.000Z

Popkomm is openning on Wednesday with 400 groups from 30 countries facing multimedia. Productors, Majors and lapels are very attracted by, digging for new contracts. Katja Bittner, the event's director is saying that the music industry is changing because of new technos.

Night Clubs are rocking Berling all 4 nights long with most famous DJ and musicians in order to promote new talents and develop business.

The web giants MySpace and Yahoo music are sponsoring the festival in a multimedia fashion way.

Foreign countries from Africa or South America will join the event in grace of Sonicbids that will pay the flying tickets.

2007-09-16T07:43:00.000Z

Project Management for Information Systems is a comprehensive introduction to the design and implementation of computer-based information systems. The book combines theory, practice and advice on the role of the project leader in managing the team, the individual and the task. This book will enable the reader to plan all aspects of an IS project and to ensure that the project is implemented in a timely way and to budget. The book takes a very practical approach, which examines best practice.

The textbook's excellent supplementary material can be found at www.booksites.net/cadle

If you want to manage change avoiding failure to develop a leadership, this book is for you.

Authors : James Cadle and Donald Yeates

2007-06-06T08:12:00.000Z

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http://www.aswarmofangels.com/ - remixing cinema

2006-10-10T20:54:00.000Z

The American services of meteorology envisage one lenient winter 2006/07 on the whole of the United States with temperatures above the normal thanks to the hot current El Nino in the Pacific, according to forecasts' made public Tuesday. These forecasts could involve a less great consumption of fuel and natural gas. However the winter will be colder than the precedent, which was the hotter fifth in the United States. “The reinforcement in the course of the El Nino current in the tropical zone of the Pacific Ocean should persist during all the winter with the possibility that it becomes more intense in the next months”, explains the oceanic and atmospheric administration American (NOAA). “The intensification of El Nino will have an influence on the localization and the force of the hot current above the Pacific Ocean what will affect precipitations and the temperatures in the whole of the United States”, Michael Halpert, the principal meteorologist of the center of forecasts of the climate indicated, with the NOAA. “This probably will involve less cold temperatures in the country than during the majority of the winters during which the El Nino current does not appear”, it added in an official statement posted on Internet site of the NOAA. However, the next winter will be colder than the precedent with on average from 5 to 10% of more than days of heating than into 2005/06. Last winter was the hotter fifth recorded in the United States with an average temperature of 2,4 degrees Celsius. Hottest was that of 1999/2000 with an average temperature of 2,8 degrees.

2006-08-31T08:47:00.000Z

The Minister for the Economy of Finances and Industry have just announced that he gave his authorization to the merging together of CANALSAT and TPS. At the end one three months period of legal and financial work, TPS will become thus a subsidiary company of Group CANAL+. This operation intervenes whereas France was the last large country European in which 2 satellite platforms of paying TV coexisted. It will be made for the benefit subscribers who will see their offer enriched with the distribution of TF1 M6 TPS Star and CANAL+ Le Bouquet on the 2 platforms, and the arrival of the HD TV.
This news is alREADY at

2006-08-30T04:36:00.000Z

SpiralFrog and Universal Music Group Partner in Advertising-Supported Legal Music Download Service in Canada and USA

SpiralFrog has signed an agreement with Universal Music Group (UMG), the world's leading music company, to make UMG's extensive catalog available for legal downloading in the US and Canada via SpiralFrog's advertising-supported service.

SpiralFrog will offer users of its no-cost web-based service the ability to legally download music by many of the world's most popular and award-winning artists.

SpiralFrog will launch in beta later this year.

SpiralFrog (www.spiralfrog.com) is the new online music destination offering advertising-supported legal downloads of audio and video content licensed from the catalogs of the world’s leading record labels and from independents.

2006-08-28T17:09:00.000Z

Welcome back to my blog :) After an endless break, news are dramatically hot down here, so this blog will have a rebirth, in english langage please. Expect improved links with the french side of the moon : http://ready2.info . Unfortunally I've got troubles to introduce it into the blogosphere. Mah... It is a question of time, some cleanup in the W3 meta tags, and it should be online soon. Take care.

2006-08-27T14:03:00.000Z

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2006-08-27T13:52:00.000Z

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Total Solar Eclipse

2006-03-29T17:30:00.000Z

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Originally uploaded by idagl.

The Sun and the Moon separated Wednesday in the intimacy of the top of the uninhabited north of Mongolia, after having traversed in couple an ocean and four continents, with the great happiness of million Land which admired the fourth total solar eclipse of the century.

"United We Stand" Brazil

2006-03-27T07:06:00.000Z

"A movement for people who have no roof of their own"

"If I pay my rent, I go hungry, so I don't pay and I become homeless"

In one of the world's biggest cities a communit who found their own answer homelessness face the streets again. Karin Goodwin reports from Sao Paulo It is the early morning light struggles I through the fine February drizzle, Sao Paulo's 18 million residents are waking up. On Avenida Paulista, the beating heart of the financial capital, well-heeled executives bustle to their chic offices in towering skyscrapers, while the occasional helicopter whirs overhead, whisking the super-rich across town.

Just a stone's throw away in the rundown city centre, many of an estimated homeless population of 20,000 are folding away makeshift beds constructed under bridges, flyovers and in doorways, where whole families often shelter. And just a few kilometres north, Jomarina Abreu Pires da Fonseca is standing outside 911 Prestes Maia, watching as the city comes to life.

Three years ago the crumbling 2 3-storey concrete block was one of a UN-estimated 39,000 abandoned buildings in the city. Then the fact that the hulking former textile factory had lain empty for IS years came to the attention of the Movimento Sem Teto de Centro (MSTC) -literally the Roofless Movement of the Centre - a grassroots organisation that grew out of a protest campaign in the early 90s to stop people going hungry in Brazil's most affluent city. The link between hunger and homelessness became clear to organisers.

"If I pay my rent, I go hungry, so I don't pay and I become homeless," they were repeatedly told. As those involved looked up at the abandoned buildings, an idea began to hatch. In 1997 MSTC occupied its first building with 1,000 people and in 2002, the occupation of Prestes Maia became the biggest in South America with 468 families taking up illegal residence. Jomarina, Prestes Maia co-ordinator, smiles as she remembers that day. Together the families of all ages and ethnicities held hands, marched to the front door, and forced it open.

"It was a very emotional moment," she explains. They moved the resident drug dealers on, removed 300 truckloads of rubbish from inside, cleaned it from top to bottom and divided each floor into 11 rudimentary apartments using hardboard partitions. They put in clandestine electricity, and running water reaches the eighth floor. The families fought to make it into a home.

Now their lives are getting even tougher. On February 5, the residents were served an eviction notice, on behalf of the current owner, entrepreneur Jorge Hamuche, who contested his rights over the building in the courts more than four years ago. It is rumoured he is about to sell, and sought to have his unwelcome residents removed by the middle of last week.

But the 2,000 people living there are not ready to simply scuttle away. Ivonete Araujo, 33, the principle co-ordinator of the movement, arrives on her way to crisis talks and leads us into the building. She understands all too well the residents' problems. Leaving her hometown of Riberao Preto in Sao Paulo state at 17, she came to the city looking for work and ended up sleeping under a viaduct. In the reception area, packed with communal bikes and buggies, she explains: "The families here risk ending up on the street. It's desperate. Everyone here is really frightened.

"A notice above the reception pays testament to what the families are going through. "Congratulations residents of Prestes Maia," it says. "For your courage, your determination and your will to win in this constant struggle."

Inside the building the walls are damp to the touch, mould grows in pockets, windows are broken, the plasterwork is crumbling, and 30 people share one bathroom on each floor. Yet a rich sense of community thrives. Residents illusion that Sao Paulo was "full of opportunities". With her partner Severino Manoel de Souza she sold fruit on a street stall but after the seventh time their goods were seized by authorities because they didn't have a licence, their meagre savings ran out. Arriving at the building she immediately felt supported by the community. "Everybody helps each other," she explains. "They share everything." When Roberta and Severino were collecting rubbish to recycle for a small profit, they found some old books and decided to start a library in the basement. "It helps outsiders see a different side to the movement," she says.

"We face real discrimination. And we want to prove that we're not dirty, not scum.

"I only went to school for three months - and I had to leave because I had to work to help my family. Now I'm striving to give others the opportunities that I never had."

Severino shows the way to the well-stocked library, walking slowly. In 1986 he fell from the ninth storey of a building where he was working as an electrician. Though he won his compensation 'On our own we wouldn't manage but united we can fight for our true objective; to find a home contribute £5 a month to the building's upkeep, cleaning rotas are strictly adhered to, weekly meetings are attended, and the apartments are decorated with children's drawings, salvaged antiques and books. On the llth floor, where Jomarina's extended family live, her daughter Fernanda Fonseca is feeding her cousin's eight-month-old child Atenas in her tiny but cosy two-room apartment. She looks surprised when asked what attracted her to the movement "We didn't come here for a greater cause - we came out of necessity," she says. "Everyone who is here today was in a desperate situation. On our own we wouldn't manage but united we can fight for our true objective; to find a home."

She is worried about ending up in a hostel. "There are drugs, and no security." She casts a worried eye at the tearfully teething Atenas. A few floors down Roberta Maria da Conceicao, 44, is also worried about the effect eviction would have on the children. "Of course we are worried but we are trying to hide it from the children," she says quietly, while her partner's five-year-old grandchild plays in the background. "When the police come, they cry."

Her story is typical of Prestes Maia. She came from the poor state of Pernambuco under the .claim he never received any money. Unable to work in his profession he put his skills to use in Prestes Maia. He has invested a lot in the building and is angry. "I just don't understand a system that lets this happen," he says. "Nobody is really interested in our problems."

Days later at a cultural event in the building, there is interest of sorts. A collective of artists who have been supporting Prestes Maia in recent months attract the attention of police, who arrive in riot gear as they make their peaceful protest outside. One resident of the building is taken away for helping graffiti messages of protest, and another young artist is sprayed with tear gas when he appeals against the injustice.

By Tuesday evening, the night before the proposed eviction, tensions are running high. Residents gather in the open plan basement waiting for the return of the coordinators who are in talks with the authorities. While they wait, two families gather their belongings and leave the building, knowing they sacrifice the option to return to the movement by doing so. Finally Ivonete strides triumphantly into the room and takes up the microphone. They have been granted 60 days grace, she tells them, during which negotiations with the housing department will continue. The hall erupts - people jump up, shouting, crying, kissing, hugging.

Through the noise Ivonete continues, emotionally thanking them for their bravery and determination to stay united. Everyone takes up the chant: "Together, the people, will never be defeated..." But after the exhilaration comes the hard fact - their battle is far from over. Both Jose Serra, Sao Paulo's mayor and Orlando Almeida Filho, the housing secretary, failed to respond to The Big Issue's request for an interview, however in a statement from the office of Serra, a spokesman explained that the city was "unable" to get involved in what they viewed as a judicial process.

"The whole process, as you see, does not include Sao Paulo [city administration] at all," he said in an email. He refused to be drawn on long term plans, but admitted that the previous administration "had expressed an interest in developing a policy to use empty buildings in the centre for social housing. The current administration does not discard the whole rationale of this idea, but the cost of real estate in the Se area is one of the most expensive in the city and so it is not really viable."

In an interview with Brazilian magazine Caros Amigos [Dear Friends] in December, Mr Almeida Filho was less guarded. He said that favelas and buildings like Prestes Maia should be "destroyed"."You know that promiscuity unfortunately prevails in these people. They aren't consumers, they don't go to Mappin [a local department store] to buy a tie, they don't go to the theatre to buy tickets. What are we going to have in the centre of our city - a new favela, a new slum?" he added. "At the end of the day we are still facing eviction and we are still in the same position," says Jomarina. "There is relief, but we need to wait to see if they can actually come up with affordable homes for our families."

Ivonete is trying to be upbeat, but the last few weeks have taken their toll. "We are hoping for a positive response from the housing secretary," she says, sounding tired. "I don't know what's going to happen — but we keep on fighting together."

She has the force of the people behind her. In his fifth floor apartment, where a dream catcher hangs above the door, 38-year-old Lamartine Brasiliano da Silva refuses to give in. "This movement is what saved me," he says. "It gave me a sense of worth. The situation is not looking good. But there exists a tomorrow. There's hope." Additional reporting by Anna Mack .

Fact File Brazil POPULATION: 182.8 million. Brazil is Soutfc America's biggest country taking up almost half the continent.

POLITICS: Celebrations broke oat in October 2002 when Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a former shoeshine boy and metal worker popularly known as Lula, became Brazil's first left-wing president in four decades. The former union firebrand promised to end hunger, as well as tackle corruption and Brazil's economic woes, improve education and create jobs. However, he has been criticised for the slow pace of agrarian reforms and faced claims of corruption within his party in 2005.

SOCIETY: Brazil has one of the world's most unfair distributions of wealth. The majority of the country's arable land is owned by a handful of rich families while many are landless. A third of the population live in poverty in urban favelas, or slums. Levels of human rights abuses remain high with corrupt and ineffective policing and widespread use of torture. Activists continue to be threatened, attacked and killed. Statistics from BBC and Amnesty International

A movement for people who have no roof of their own

Movimento Sem Teto do Centre (MSTC), the Roofless Movement of the Centre, started in the 90s as an urban equivalent to the already established Brazilian landless movement MST (Movimento Sem Terra) which fights to gain land for displaced and poverty stricken rural workers. Parallel movements are growing in cities across Brazil.

Led by a committee of activists, recruitment is by word of mouth. Members, who are background checked, do not take part in an occupation until they have been with the movement for a year.

In 1997 the movement occupied its first building. In 2002, 468 families -some 2.000 people occupied the Prestes Maia building, the largest occupation in South America. A year later the movement occupied four buildings. MSTC has held up to 13 buildings at any one time.

Owners of Prestes Maia Jorge Hamuche and Eduardo Amorim are thought to owe almost £1 million in unpaid taxes on the building. I In 2004 the UN recommended the renovation of Prestes Maia to be used as social housing. Human rights groups have also expressed concerns about the "forced eviction" of the residents,

The Sao Paulo city housing department will offer temporary hostel accommodation (separating men and women) and an emergency grant of £68 per month for those evicted from MSTC occupied buildings. It claims it is committed to finding affordable housing and is currently working on the improvement of 18 favelas (slums) in the city.

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FannysParty16 au Soir 3

2006-01-27T11:55:00.000Z

Dailymotion blogged video
FP16 au Soir 3
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about Geeks, broadcasted 21th december 2005. Hard Rock Café.

2006-01-16T16:14:00.000Z

An official common statement at the end of a meeting in Buenos Aires between Argentinian persons in charge and a delegation of the French ministry of the Foreign Affairs evokes the Haïti crisis, the negotiations between the European Union and Mercosur (Argentina, Brésil, Paraguay and Uruguay), the reform of the Security Council of UN and the fight against terrorism... On all these points, the two delegations shared the same analysis, the same vision and the same strategy, which privilege the right before the force and the multilateralism before the unilateralism. Buenos Aires for its part reiterated an invitation to be gone to Argentina to French president Jacques Chirac. The two parts were pleased with "the particular relation of fraternity" between the two countries and were also appropriate to develop projects out of cultural matter and of nuclear co-operation.

2005-12-23T05:09:00.000Z

CyberTheatre.net opens to the writers, to artists, to producers and to readers a wiki enabling them to write in line original, readable and writeable scénarii. Thus an idea can be deposited in the incubator. The community will develop it according to its originality for perhaps, a day, to play it at theatre or as a movie. "Only WikiMedia offered this infinite potential of creativity to us on Internet", declares Baptiste Cadiou, on the initiative of the project which it defends from Cannes 2005. Resolutely international, the site presents an interface declined in 25 languages and no constraint is rééellement imposed on the linguistic level, although the 3 official languages are English, French and Spanish. It remains with the users to comply with the rules on the copyright and the protection of the minors to write their prose, their poetry, on the white pages of the still virgin site in these first days of winter.

2005-12-13T10:27:00.000Z

On a landscape that seems to be transforming itself with every new technology, marketing tactic, or investment strategy, businesses rush to embrace change by trading in their competencies or shifting their focus, altogether. All in the name of innovation. But this endless worrying, wriggling, and trend-watching only alienates companies from whatever it is they really do best. In the midst of the headlong rush to think “outside the box,” the full engagement responsible for true innovation is lost. New consultants, new packaging, new marketing schemes or even new CEO’s are no substitute for the evolution of our own expertise, as individuals and as businesses. Indeed, for all their talk about innovation, most companies today are still scared to death of it. To Douglas Rushkoff, this disconnect is not only predictable, but welcome. It marks the happy end of a business cycle that began as long ago as the Renaissance, and ended with the renaissance in creativity and collaboration we’re going through today. The age of mass production, mass media, and mass marketing may be over, but so, too, is the alienation it engendered between producers and consumers, managers and employees, executives and shareholders and, worst of all, businesses and their own core values and competencies. American enterprise, in particular, is at a crossroads. Having for too long replaced innovation with acquisitions, tactics, efficiencies, and ad campaigns, many businesses have dangerously lost touch with the process – and fun - of discovery. ”American companies are obsessed with window dressing,” Rushkoff writes, “because they're reluctant, no, afraid to look at whatever it is they really do and evaluate it from the inside out. When things are down, CEO's look to consultants and marketers to rethink, re-brand or repackage whatever it is they are selling, when they should be getting back on the factory floor, into the stores, or out to the research labs where their product is actually made, sold, or conceived.”

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People´s Summit

2005-11-04T12:14:00.000Z

a spooky kind of maths
Originally uploaded by The Alieness <gisela giardino>.

versus Fourth summit of the Americas

GRRRR(izzly)

2005-10-12T15:10:00.000Z

GRRRR(izzly)
Originally uploaded by francophony.

And suddenly, in a crazy world, this documentary about bears is a little moment of poetry

2005-09-13T22:31:00.000Z

the female moth

Blue Ball

2005-07-22T19:45:00.000Z

2005 07 22 - 20 40 58
Originally uploaded by weird rubik's cube.

all my youth : Le Havre bay harbour

2005-06-03T05:55:00.000Z

WeatherGirl

Buenos Aires	Paris

Crying Kid

2005-01-02T07:49:00.000Z

01-02
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No, I don't want to come !

1H30 to drive out of the sub parking of the Galeries Lafayette

2004-12-19T15:32:00.000Z

Locked in sub parking
Originally uploaded by bc2.

We couldn't breathe because of the high toxicity of the 50 cars gaz. Traffic was completly jammed in the streets so we couldn't advance and a lot of cars felt in mechanical hazards in clouds of pesting smoke.
Car ? No klar !

Extra terrestre

2004-12-03T14:51:00.000Z

Extra terrestre
Originally uploaded by bc2.

Saint Germain des PrÃ©s

Flickr

2004-12-03T14:41:00.000Z

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

2003-07-16T20:23:00.000Z

2003-07-01T06:01:00.000Z

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.

2003-06-26T18:51:00.000Z

Franklin Chef, Compact refrigerators, Wine cellars, blenders, mixers, roasters, rotisseries, ovens, hotplates, coffeemakers

2003-06-24T21:44:00.000Z

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...

2003-06-21T05:46:00.000Z

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

2003-06-16T03:45:00.000Z

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€

2003-06-05T06:32:00.000Z

2003-06-04T08:51:00.000Z

Amelia Vega is Miss Universe 2003

2003-05-11T20:33:00.000Z

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.

2003-05-02T20:19:00.000Z

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

2003-05-01T09:30:00.000Z

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 !

2003-04-22T04:00:00.000Z

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 ;-)

2003-04-19T08:57:00.000Z

2003-04-18T04:06:00.000Z

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.

2003-04-16T05:25:00.000Z

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.

2003-04-10T18:21:00.000Z

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."

2003-04-08T22:51:00.000Z

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!

2003-04-05T04:37:00.000Z

we will blog you from Le Havre :-)

2003-04-05T01:00:00.000Z

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

2003-04-04T01:01:00.000Z

Bagdad is waiting...

2003-03-31T10:40:00.000Z

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

2003-03-31T10:21:00.000Z

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 :-)

2003-03-31T07:49:00.000Z

2003-03-30T23:49:00.000Z

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

2003-03-28T18:42:00.000Z

ABC News
CBS News
CNN
FOX News

2003-03-25T01:58:00.000Z

2003-03-21T07:57:00.000Z

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

2003-03-20T08:49:00.000Z

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.

2003-03-20T08:42:00.000Z

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."

2003-03-18T01:17:00.000Z

48 hours...

2003-03-16T19:05:00.000Z


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

2003-03-16T18:25:00.000Z

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

2003-03-16T12:38:00.000Z

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.

2003-03-16T11:53:00.000Z

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

2003-03-10T14:42:00.000Z

LUCKY

it works back ;-) READY2.INFO

2003-03-10T12:33:00.000Z

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...

2003-03-09T00:00:00.000Z

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

2003-03-04T21:01:00.000Z

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

2003-03-02T21:29:00.000Z

Enjoy!! -
READY2.INFO is back !

2003-03-02T16:39:00.000Z

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

2003-03-02T02:13:00.000Z

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

2003-02-27T21:33:00.000Z

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.

2003-02-27T12:50:00.000Z

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...

2003-02-27T10:13:00.000Z

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...

2003-02-26T22:51:00.000Z

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

always exists !

2003-02-25T15:36:00.000Z

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.

2003-02-25T02:37:00.000Z

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...

2003-02-24T10:16:00.000Z

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

2003-02-20T21:15:00.000Z

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

2003-02-19T07:13:00.000Z

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 !

2003-02-19T01:56:00.000Z

How to cook reality ?

2003-02-18T11:25:00.000Z

Weblogs are going Googling.

2003-02-14T03:00:00.000Z

What time is it in yours ears ?

2003-02-08T16:05:00.000Z

salut la bande

2003-01-30T21:10:00.000Z

A new style sheet has been published today.

2003-01-30T08:04:00.000Z

Notice : this web is on GMT time

2003-01-28T14:56:00.000Z

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

2003-01-28T10:04:00.000Z

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 ;-)

2003-01-28T00:41:00.000Z

ready2.info !

READY2.BLOGSPOT.COM

Daily Mugshot

Preste Maia | Opening in Los Angeles August 9

Light Painting

ENPS mobile : Yes, it works !

Studio Broadcast TV

Popkomm : the international business platform for music and entertainement

Total Solar Eclipse

"United We Stand" Brazil

FannysParty16 au Soir 3

People´s Summit

GRRRR(izzly)

Blue Ball

Crying Kid

1H30 to drive out of the sub parking of the Galeries Lafayette

Extra terrestre

Flickr

Vivendi told to pay Messier $23.5m

Mr Messier has asked for his golden handshake

'Indecent'

Firesale

MERCREDI 18 JUIN 2003

SEVEN TO ONE

ONE TO SEVEN

Thank you, great leader George W. Bush

LUCKY

UNLUCKY

Enjoy!! - READY2.INFO is back !

OUF YESS IT WORKS !!!

http://READY2.INFO

http://READY2.FREE.FR

Don't cry

Enjoy!! -
READY2.INFO is back !