| Hotel furnishings on the rebound
When I was in my mid-20s, I was living in London, making almost no money and staying in a dumpy, damp and cramped flat directly above the train tracks. As poor as I was, and as rough as my living conditions were, I had original artwork hanging on my wall, I had a flashy stereo and I slept on luxurious Frette linens every night. I wasn't living beyond my means, and no, I wasn't robbing banks, either. I just knew how to score some cheap goods when the local hotels were redecorating their rooms. You don't have to go begging at the back doors of hotels to get great furniture and accessories at rock-bottom prices. You see, when hotels renovate, they usually sell their out-of-date and worn furnishings to large liquidators. These companies resell the goods at huge warehouses located across the country.
Sky Italia for IPO?
It has made offers to Barcelona and Real Madrid to exclusively acquire their TV rights for around E120 million per year each, (doubling their current TV revenues), from the 2008-2009 season for a five year period. Mediapro is also in talks with other important football teams, like Valencia and Atletico de Madrid.
With this move, Mediapro (La Sexta) is challenging Sogecable, owner of DTH platform Digital Plus, which currently controls most of the football TV rights in Spain through its subsidiary Audiovisual Sport. La Sexta is betting on football to make itself room in the Spanish TV market in a very short time. It has already acquired this summers World Cup rights for around E100m.
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US cablecos to bid for mobile According to US press cable television operators including Time Warner and Comcast are considering a joint bid with Sprint Nextel, the third largest mobile carrier, for wireless spectrum in the auction set to attract bids from a long list of media and telecoms companies.
Monday wild card
I wanted to give you some information on what some of the other Cities that host Ironman events require. Please do not think that I am picking a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel. I would like to give you information about Ironman events in other areas and cities." For the rest of Cliff's memo to the mayor and council, click here. DFO: Cliff makes a good argument. .
Mayor Ousted: Bartlesville City Council votes to strip title from Ron ...
We are networked through work internationally and there are so many people from here to Indonesia, Kazakhstan, London--you name it--and back, who email us one disastrous recollection followed by another--the experiences they had living here. Well, good riddance to Bartlesville--we say--and hello to better paying jobs (with sign on bonuses of a years' salary and more) in a real city! We will not miss this town! But it has been nice knowing you, Brady, and we are all so appreciative of your efforts to bring the BCC and Bartlesville into the 21st century. Nice blog, too, and it is nice to be able to share the way that we feel somewhere where it is 'safe'. I'm sure you can understand that we have to be careful and very discrete. In fact, I am borrowing a friend of mine's computer to type this now.
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