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Feb
Cheniere Rises After BG Group CEO Comments on LNG
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By Edward Klump
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — Cheniere Energy Inc., the liquefied natural-gas importer proposing to build U.S. export plants Watches Replica, climbed to its highest in more than three years after BG Group Plc forecast “strong” demand for the fuel.
Cheniere Watches Replica, based in Houston, surged 15 percent to $14.27 at the close in New York, its highest level since April 2008.
“The outlook for global gas and LNG demand is strong,” BG Chief Executive Officer Frank Chapman said in a statement today. BG announced Oct. 26 a contract to buy 3.5 million metric tons a year from an export terminal Cheniere is seeking to develop at Sabine Pass in Louisiana.
BG expects about 45 million tons of LNG may be exported annually from the U.S. in 2020, or about 10 percent of the country’s current gas demand, said Chapman, who spoke to reporters today.
–With assistance from Eduard Gismatullin in London. Editors: Jasmina Kelemen, Jessica Resnick-Ault
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Dubai Aerospace Acting CEO George Mushahwar Leaves
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By Shaji Mathew
Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) — Dubai Aerospace Enterprise Ltd., which canceled orders for Airbus SAS and Boeing Co. planes last year said its acting Chief Executive Officer George Mushahwar lef the company.
Dubai Aerospace’s core management team, led by the chief operating officer Watches Replica, remains intact and committed to enhancing shareholder value, the company said in an e-mailed statement today. Mushahwar left to start an independent business venture Watches Replica, it said.
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Lady Gaga – Lady Gaga Up For Glaad Award
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Lady Gaga Up For Glaad Award
Lady Gaga, the cast of ‘Glee’ and Chaz Bono have all been nominated for a Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Award.
Lady Gaga has been nominated for a Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Award.
The 25-year-old singer will do battle with ‘The Voice’ contestant Beverly McClellan, Girl in a Coma, Hunx and His Punx, and MEN for the Outstanding Music Artist accolade at the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards, which aims to recognise and honour media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.
The cast of ‘Glee’ – which features Chris Colfer and Jayne Lynch – have been given a nod for Outstanding Comedy Series, while the Clint Eastwood-directed movie ‘J.Edgar’ has been recognised in the Outstanding Film – Wide Release category.
Chaz Bono – who was born a woman named Chastity and began gender reassignment surgery three years ago – has a double nomination with his ‘Becoming Chaz’ show up for Outstanding Documentary and his appearance on the ‘Late Show with David Letterman’ earning an Outstanding Talk Show Episode nod.
Mike Thompson, GLAAD’s acting president, said in a statement: “As media continue to tell new stories about LGBT people and families, a majority of Americans now support full equality of LGBT Americans.
“This year’s nominees enlighten and entertain, while spotlighting the diversity of our community. Audiences expect to see their own worlds reflected in media, and today more than ever, those include the lives of LGBT people. Viewers know that LGBT characters and stories are simply natural extensions of, and glimpses into, their own experiences from across America.”
The awards will be presented at three ceremonies in New York on March 24, Los Angeles on April 21 and San Francisco on June 2.
Selected list of GLAAD nominees:
Outstanding Drama Series:
‘Degrassi’
‘TeenNick’
‘Grey’s Anatomy’
‘ABC’
‘Pretty Little Liars’
‘ABC Family’
‘Shameless’
‘Showtime’
‘Torchwood: Miracle Day’
‘Starz’
Outstanding Comedy Series:
‘Exes and Ohs’
‘Logo’
‘Glee’
‘Fox’
‘Happy Endings’
‘ABC’
‘Modern Family’
‘ABC’
‘The Big C’
‘Showtime’
Outstanding Individual Episode (in a series without a regular LGBT character):
‘Acceptance’ Man Up!, ABC
‘Beards’ Hot in Cleveland, TV Land
‘Prom’ Drop Dead Diva, Lifetime
‘Recruited’ NCIS, CBS
‘The Boy Has Style’ Are We There Yet?, TBS
Outstanding Documentary:
‘Becoming Chaz’, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network
‘The Strange History of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’, HBO
‘The World’s Worst Place to be Gay?’, Logo
‘Two Spirits’, PBS
‘We Were Here’, Red Flag Releasing
Outstanding Reality Programme:
‘Dancing with the Stars’
‘ABC’
‘Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys’
‘Sundance Channel’
‘The Glee Project’
‘Oxygen’
‘The Real L Word’
‘Showtime’
‘The Voice’
‘NBC’
Outstanding Talk Show Episode:
‘Chaz Bono’, ‘Late Show with David Letterman’, CBS
‘Children & Teens Caught in the Wrong Bodies’ Anderson, syndicated
‘Coming Out on the Oprah Show: 25 Years of Unforgettable Guests’ The Oprah Winfrey Show, syndicated
‘The Wedding of Scott Cronick & David Gorshein’ Conan, TBS
‘Zach Wahls’ The Ellen DeGeneres Show, syndicated
Outstanding Daily Drama:
‘All My Children’
‘ABC’
‘Days of Our Lives’
‘NBC’
Outstanding Music Artist:
Beverly McClellan, ‘Fear Nothing’, Oarfin Records
Girl in a Coma, ‘Exits & All the Rest’, Blackheart Records
Hunx and His Punx, ‘Too Young to Be in Love’, Hardly Art
Lady Gaga, ‘Born This Way’, Interscope Records
MEN, ‘Talk About Body’, IAMSOUND Records
Feb
Michael Clarke Duncan – Duncan Was Assigned To Pro
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Duncan Was Assigned To Protect Notorious B.I.G. The Night Of His Death
Former bodyguard Michael Clarke Duncan has revealed he was assigned to protect Notorious B.I.G. on the night the tragic rapper was killed.
The Green Mile actor, who was a security-man-for-hire before his acting career took off, has confessed he was assigned to guard the heavyweight star at the Soul Train Music Awards in Los Angeles in March, 1997, but he swapped the job with a pal to cover R&B singer Kenneth ‘Babyface’ Edmonds instead.
Notorious B.I.G., real name Christopher Wallace, was gunned down in a drive-by shooting hours later.
And Duncan admits the incident was a rude awakening – one which prompted him to make a career change.
He explains, “One of my last assignments, it was really bad, because we were doing the Soul Train Music Awards and I was assigned to Biggie Smalls that night. The night that he got killed. A guy called me at the last second and said, ‘Did you want to switch?’ So I switched and went to Babyface and my friend went to Biggie Smalls – and that was the last time I worked security.”
And the actor can’t help but think that the rapper would have survived the attack on his life if he had been in charge of his security for the night.
He says, “In hindsight, everybody says I would have done this (differently) but my thing was never let the client sit on the passenger side door in the front. If you were my client, I’d have you… sitting in the middle (seat).
“When things like that happen you have to ask yourself, ‘Am I really ready to give up my life to do this?’ And I figured if you’re not ready to do that, you need to find some other type of work.”
Notorious B.I.G.’s murder remains unsolved.
Feb
Buffetts NetJets Widens Lufthansa Ties for Private
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By Mary Jane Credeur and Andrew Frye
(Updates with sample pricing in seventh paragraph.)
Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) — NetJets Inc., the private-aircraft company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., deepened a partnership with Deutsche Lufthansa AG to offer private jet service to 3,000 North American airports.
The accord expands an agreement now in place to serve 1,000 destinations in Europe. The target market is wealthy travelers flying from Europe, and passengers can book just one trip, a smaller commitment than typically required for most charter-jet flights, said Martin Riecken, a Lufthansa spokesman.
“The beauty for the customer is he can book a trans- Atlantic flight from Europe to the U.S.” on a Lufthansa jet and then schedule a domestic flight leg, Riecken said today in a telephone interview.
Customers will have a dedicated service team to book flights, ground transportation and in-flight food and drink, Cologne, Germany-based Lufthansa said in a statement. Passengers can also get personal transfer service when connecting from overseas flights on Lufthansa planes to a private jet flight, plus access to airport lounges in 21 North American cities.
The Lufthansa-NetJets North American partnership will compete with services such as Delta Air Lines Inc.’s Delta Private Jets, which offers blocks of flight time as short as 10 hours that can be used on multiple trips.
The cost of a NetJets flight varies by length of flight and size of aircraft, Riecken said.
Super Bowl Flight
For example, chartering a four-person plane to Indianapolis, site of the National Football League’s Super Bowl on Feb. 5, from New Jersey’s Teterboro airport near New York would be $10 Watches Replica,800, Riecken said. The same trip on an eight- passenger jet would be $13,488, he said.
Delta’s hourly pricing can range from $4,750 to $11 Fake Watches,900, according to its website.
Lufthansa Private Jet passengers will earn 10,000 frequent- flier miles per flight leg, while NetJets will operate the flights with planes such as a seven-passenger Hawker 400XP or a 14-person Gulfstream G550, Lufthansa said in the statement.
“We are pleased to collaborate with Lufthansa on the expanded Lufthansa Private Jet product and provide travelers access to the convenience and flexibility of flying privately with NetJets,” Adam Johnson, president of sales, marketing and service for NetJets North America, said in an e-mailed statement.
NetJets Turnaround
NetJets, which Berkshire purchased in 1998, became “the major problem” for the Omaha, Nebraska-based parent in 2009 as the recession made it more difficult for the unit to fill planes, Buffett said in that year’s annual report.
Buffett replaced NetJets founder Richard Santulli with David Sokol, and the unit returned to profit after firing pilots and writing down the value of aircraft.
Buffett promoted Jordan Hansell to chief executive officer of NetJets in 2011, giving the unit its third leader in less than two years. Sokol, a former Berkshire energy executive, resigned last year.
Last March, NetJets agreed to buy as many as 120 planes from Bombardier Inc., including 50 firm orders with a retail price of $2.8 billion and deliveries beginning in 2017. NetJets has access to 750 jets worldwide.
–Editors: Ed Dufner, John Lear
To contact the reporters on this story: Mary Jane Credeur in Atlanta at mcredeur@bloomberg.net; Andrew Frye in New York at afrye@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Ed Dufner at edufner@bloomberg.net; Dan Kraut at dkraut2@bloomberg.net
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BP Cuts Energy-Demand Growth Forecast to 2030 to 1
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By Mathew Carr and Lananh Nguyen
(Updates with revision to 2010 growth in second paragraph.)
Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc cut its estimate of global energy demand growth through 2030 to 1.6 percent annually from 1.7 percent a year ago, according to statements on its website.
The cut followed an increase in BP’s estimate of 2010 demand by 1.6 percent to 12 billion metric tons of oil equivalent Replica Watch, said Christof Ruehl, BP’s chief economist.
Demand will jump 39 percent by 2030, with the expansion coming almost entirely from developing nations Watches Replica, to 16.6 billion tons, the London-based company said in its Energy Outlook 2030 report. That’s 1.2 percent higher than last year’s estimate of 16.4 billion.
–Editors: Raj Rajendran, John Buckley.
To contact the reporters on this story: Mathew Carr in London at m.carr@bloomberg.net; Lananh Nguyen in London at lnguyen35@bloomberg.net
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Belarus Unit of Irans Bank Tejarat Angered at U.S.
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By Jack Jordan and Aliaksandr Kudrytski
Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) — Trade Capital Bank, the Belarusian bank controlled by Iran’s third-largest lender, said it will not stop operating after the U.S. designated it as providing financial services to the Export Development Bank of Iran amid sanctions against the Persian Gulf nation.
“This attitude angers us, because we’re a Belarusian bank, operating fully within the jurisdiction of the Republic of Belarus to the standards required by our laws Replica Watches,” Andrei Veretelnikov, chairman of Trade Capital Bank’s board, said by phone from Minsk yesterday. “There will be difficulties with our relations with European and American banks, but the work of the bank will go on.”
The U.S. Treasury Department on Jan. 23 took steps to cut off Bank Tejarat from the international financial system for providing financial services to Iran’s lenders and companies under international sanctions for involvement in the country’s nuclear and missile proliferation. The move “will deepen Iran’s financial isolation Watches Replica,” Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David S. Cohen said in a statement.
European Union foreign ministers on Jan. 23 also agreed to freeze the assets of Bank Tejarat’s European branch in Paris.
Belarus, which U.S. President George W. Bush described as “the last dictatorship in Europe” in 2005, yesterday called the sanctions against Iran “counterproductive.”
Economic Sanctions
“Methods of economic pressure and coercion are totally unacceptable,” the foreign ministry said in a statement yesterday. “The economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran have nothing to do with nuclear non-proliferation, and will only cause harm to the country’s economy and ordinary people.”
Trade Capital Bank is Belarus’s 12th-largest lender with about 1.9 trillion Belarusian rubles ($224 million) in assets as of Oct. 1, according to the central bank’s records. The lender had the third-biggest profit growth of Belarus’s banks last year, the central bank data shows, after net income rose eightfold to 21.6 billion rubles in the third quarter from 2.6 billion rubles a year earlier. The bank has branches in Tehran and Kiev as well as Minsk, according to its website.
–Editors: Zoe Schneeweiss, Hellmuth Tromm
To contact the reporters on this story: Jack Jordan in Moscow at jjordan22@bloomberg.net; Aliaksandr Kudrytski in Minsk, Belarus at akudrytski@bloomberg.net
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Lagarde Signals to IMF Staff More Power for Emergi
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By Timothy R. Homan and Sandrine Rastello
July 1 (Bloomberg) — Christine Lagarde signaled that as the new head of the International Monetary Fund she will follow through on a promise to increase the stature of emerging-market nations at the global lender.
Lagarde, speaking to IMF staff in a video message, distanced herself from her previous role as French finance minister and indicated she would advance efforts to give more voting power to countries such as China and Brazil, according to a transcript obtained by Bloomberg News yesterday. Her five-year term begins on July 5.
“The transformations that have taken place in relation to governance for instance, must be pursued, must be continued, so that the fund does belong to its 187 members,” Lagarde, 55, said. “I am not the director of a particular group of countries. I am the director of the entire institution.”
In the course of an election-style campaign that took her to Brazil, China and the Middle East, Lagarde promised to boost the clout of developing nations at the IMF. In doing so she garnered endorsements from emerging economies as well as European Union countries and the U.S.
Lagarde was selected over Agustin Carstens, Mexico’s central bank governor. Emerging markets failed to rally around a candidate from among their ranks, after calling for an end to Europe’s six-decade lock on the position.
Candidate Lagarde
As a candidate, Lagarde also said she would push for quick implementation of a 2010 agreement that makes China the third- strongest voice in the organization and gives more say to nations such as South Korea. The 2010 agreement also weakens the influence of advanced European economies, which pledged to reduce the number of seats they hold on the IMF’s 24-person executive board.
“I am very concerned that we can enrich the institution as much as we can by using diversity as an asset,” Lagarde said, according to the transcript of the video message. “Gender Watches Replica, geography, academic background, culture — all that diversity should actually be mixed so well that it produces this unbelievable intellectual talent that you together can produce.”
Women accounted for 45.5 percent of the IMF’s staff and 21.5 percent of its managerial jobs at the end of 2010, according to the organization’s annual diversity report Watches Replica, which also called the number of employees from emerging-market countries “unacceptably small.”
Lagarde is the first woman to head the IMF. She replaces Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who resigned after his arrest last month on charges that include attempted rape. He has pleaded not guilty.
“I know that recent events have not been particularly pleasant for any of you nor for the institution as a whole,” Lagarde said to IMF staff, without mentioning Strauss-Kahn by name.
–Editors: Christopher Wellisz, Kevin Costelloe
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