Wednesday 16 September 2009

The speaker line.


The speaker line. Not will be better to face the facts and take responsibility? In this way dealing directly with a “hand” that was “dealt” me. Jumping into the corporate business and than “tirar o tapete” might be too much weight for me. Don't matter with my insight proves right. To be real, bigger not necessary mean be especially smart or fairly better. Saying and insisting in 2008 that the Barclays “windfall profit” in Lehman Brothers Holdings was just my years in monetary equivalence (the £4.9 billion pounds) – its like the buying some gorgeous box with miracle inside and than get less than you bargaining for. For example, if I have more than one TV, do I really need both of them? If I have a two cars (actually, I don't have any) – are both cars I use daily? Same is with two microwaves, etc. Not will be better for us to just prioritize and than go from there? One thief, with Putin face, was asking me to show him the “at” (in Russian “@” 'coбачку') today in City. Since I am almost part of furniture there. Although he print the two pages of London-Stanstead bus tickets already... ( Barroso wins new term as Commission chief. STRASBOURG, France, September 16 - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso secured a second five-year term on Wednesday in a vote at the European Parliament. Of the assembly’s 736 deputies, 382 voted for the 53-year-old center-right leader and 219 opposed. The rest abstained or did not take part in the vote in the French city of Strasbourg.) Elementary cooperation is needed. More yet in dealing with ongoing piggy faces from Brussels and Strasbourg “partners” and equals.

1). The speaker line up is exceptional, including:

· Håkon Borgen, Executive Vice President, Statnett, Norway

· Aurelio Blanquet, Director, Automation and Telecontrol, EDP Distribuição - Energia, S.A.,Portugal

· Micheal Kranhold, Head of Department, TSO-Cooperation, Vattenfall, Germany

· Grace Samodal, Chief Operations Officer, Imera Ltd

· Klaas Hommes, Project Manager Congestion Management, TenneT TSO BV, The Netherlands

· François Nguyen, Senior Policy Advisor - Electricity Markets, IEA, France

· Juan Manuel Rodriguez-Garcia, Red Electrica de Espana , Spain

· Dr. Tahir Kapetanovi, Director Electricity, Energie-Control GmbH, Austrian Energy Regulatory Authority, and EU TP SmartGrids Advisory Council member and Chair, WG Network Operations, Austria

· Ronnie Belmans, Chairman, Elia, Belgium and Vice Chairman and Full Professor, K.U.Leuven, Belgium

· Nikos Hatziargyriou, Vice Chairman and Deputy CEO, Public Power Corporation, Greece

2). Barclays got £4.9 bln "windfall" – Lehman. Wed Sep 16 06:25:22 UTC 2009. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings said on Tuesday that Barclays Capital got a $8.2 billion (4.9 billion pound) "windfall profit" from excess assets it took control of in the fire sale of Lehman's U.S. brokerage business a year ago.In court papers filed in federal bankruptcy court in Manhattan on Tuesday, Lehman claimed that "critical changes" were made to the sale in between the time the sale order was signed and the deal was closed, resulting in Barclays gaining control of assets that Lehman contends were not supposed to be part of the sale. Lehman filed for bankruptcy on September 15, 2008, in the largest U.S. bankruptcy in history. Its flagship U.S. brokerage business was sold to Barclays less than a week later in a hurriedly-assembled deal. "Certain Lehman executives agreed to give Barclays an undisclosed $5 billion discount off the book value of securities transferred to Barclays, and later agreed to give billions more in so-called "additional value" that Barclays demanded, but the court never approved," Lehman said in the court filing. The charges come after Lehman received approval in June to probe whether Barclays got "too good of a deal" when it bought Lehman's brokerage business, as the British bank was able to quickly book a $4.2 billion gain on its $1.75 billion purchase. Barclays said at the time that it did not expect the probe to result in any additional claims. Lehman was allowed to probe Barclays because of the speed with which the deal with Lehman's was reached. "It's conceivable that mistakes were made," said Judge James Peck of U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York at a hearing in June. Lehman alleged in the filing that Barclays had committed to pay former Lehman employees $2 billion in bonuses but never did and "never intended to do so" despite factoring them in to the terms of the sale. The difficulties with the valuations of assets and liabilities were "exacerbated the fact that many of the Lehman decision makers who 'negotiated' the transaction with Barclays had at the same time been offered lucrative" jobs at Barclays on condition the sale be closed, Lehman said. "This is an opportunistic claim," Barclays said in a statement on Tuesday. "Now that the economy has begun to stabilise the Lehman Estate is trying to re-trade the deal on the basis of a meritless argument." Lehman is asking the court to amend the deal and a hearing is scheduled for October 15. The Trustee overseeing the liquidation of Lehman's North American brokerage business and return of assets to customers also said in a statement on Tuesday that "billions of dollars in additional assets" that Barclays claims it owns are "customer property" and were not authorized by the sale. "The transfer of these assets to Barclays would create an unfair windfall for Barclays at the expense of public customers," James Giddens, the trustee for the Liquidation of Lehman Brothers Inc. under the Securities Investor Protection Act said in the statement.

3). Piloto espanhol e dois passageiros holandeses morreram em queda de avioneta. Veja o vídeo em: http://www.sic.pt/online/video/informacao/noticias-pais/2009/9/piloto-espanhol-e-dois-passageiros-holandeses-morreram-em-queda-de-avioneta.htm. Mensagem: Let's to rusia petroleum try a little bit harder. Make to them the "Dutch trick".

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