...Liberty Global acquires Virgin Media Deal No 1601443609 Deal overview Deal type Deal status Deal value Acquisition 100% Completed 18,121,672 th EUR * Target name VIRGIN MEDIA INC. Country United States of America Activity Cable broadband Internet, satellite television and fixed telephone telecommunications broadcasting services BvD ID number US593778247 Mobile broadband and telephone telecommunications services Acquiror name LIBERTY GLOBAL PLC Country United Kingdom Activity Telephone telecommunications services Fixed telephone communications services Internet service provider Regulatory bodies European Commission (European Union) Deal structure & dates Deal type Deal sub-type Deal financing Deal method of payment Acquisition 100% Recommended bid Public takeover New bank facilities Capital increase - vendor placing Deal status Rumour date Announced date Completed date Completed 05/02/2013 05/02/2013 07/06/2013 Debt assumed Shares Cash Deal values Deal value 18,121,672 th EUR * Native currency USD BvD ID number GB08379990 Deal equity value Deal enterprise value Deal modelled enterprise value Deal total target value n.a. 18,121,672 th EUR n.a. 18,121,672 th EUR * Modelled Fee Income 42,000 th EUR Pre-deal target financials & multiples VIRGIN MEDIA INC. Consolidated statements 31/12/2012 12 months Unqual Local GAAP 10-K th EUR 0.75507 Pre-deal target operating revenue/turnover Pre-deal Pre-deal Pre-deal Pre-deal Pre-deal Pre-deal Pre-deal Pre-deal...
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... ( In Pennekamp V. Florida ) ABSTRACT In rapidly changing socio-economic condition of a country like India, the media plays a vital role in moulding the whole viewpoint of society hence it is often quoted that media is the fourth pillar of Indian democracy. Violation of human right has many dimensions and one of such dimensions finds in the trial by media. In India trial by media has assumed significant proportions. There are many cases in India where media showed its importance by continuously highlighting it, such as Priyadarshnimatto case, Nitishkatra murder case, Bijaljoshi rape case, Aarushitalwar case, Jessica case etc. Media has now reincarnated itself into a “public court” (jantaadalat). It use to watch out injustice, which has conducted the trial of an accused and passed the own verdict even before the pronouncement of judgment by the court. By this way, it prejudice the public and sometime even judges and as a result it violates the basic principle of criminal jurisprudence i.e.; ‘’presumption of innocence until proven guilty and guilty beyond reasonable doubt’’. This paper focuses on the rights of accused such as his right to fair trial, right to privacy and right to dignity, which are a violation of basic human rights guaranteed not only under Indian constitution, but also by many international organizations. Media trial along with revolutionary sting operations is an appreciable effort which helps government more accountable. But it must...
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...social media. What are the arguments for DHS to monitor social media and what are the arguments against? What are the impacts upon civil liberties having a government agency monitor your actions? Are the monitoring activities providing security? If so, is it worth losing civil liberties? As students of criminal justice, these are questions you should ask when questioning such policies. This article provides a window into what the government may be paying attention to, versus what their real goals in monitoring the sites may be. I think that to monitor these sites is a necessity as this is usually the very first place that breaking news is released and in the case of a real emergency, the appropriate officials will be aware of what is going on and can mobilize the correct response. Arguments in support of the monitoring relay this same sentiment. Arguments against the monitoring highlight the impact this may have on our right to freedom of speech and to some extent our expected right to privacy. Are the monitoring activities providing security? Yes, I think so. After the events of 9/11, not single statement against the government or any of its agencies should be taken lightly. I think that we do have the right to free speech, but today is a much different day than it was even 20 years ago. Social media has become a terrorists’ recruiting tool and monitoring activity online is in the best interest of the Nation and our safety. I am willing to forego some of my civil liberties to remain...
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...Social or Political Issues Commented on by artist through Different Centuries Lorenzo Garcia Art 100 Professor Morris 25 July 2014 Napoleon Bonaparte once said “a picture is worth a thousand words” (Kirov). Words may not be enough to communicate a thought or feeling on a current political or social issue. Artist use art to give words a physical form. A well-crafted masterpiece may have a profound effect that communicates to observers on how the artist feels about a prevailing concern. Throughout the centuries, often artist have used art to produce a personal statement which sheds light on their thoughts of social or political issues faced during their time. Through the work of art, social or political issues may be commented on by artist, creating a voice to be heard by those who observe their art work. Born on August 6th, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol became a central figure in the Pop (Popular) Art Movement. His original name was Andrew Warhola, and was born to a middle class Slovakian family, whose father was a construction worker and his mother was an embroiderer. At a young age Andy contracted chorea that that left him in bed for several months. It was during this time Andy learned about art and photography became a pastime where he could lose himself in. With his father passing and making his last decree that Andy go to college to pursue his dreams as an artist with his life savings, Andy attended Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1945...
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...The media plays a critical role for African Americans. It also plays a powerful role in the formation of prejudiced attitudes and beliefs. Media can also shape beliefs of entitlement for people in dominant groups. They only report on issues of concern to the citizens of the nation. They are there to present the facts as they are played out in any arena of social life; as being objective by virtue of their distance and nonpartisan relations; and as providing balanced coverage by presenting the different sides to an issue. The media claim that they provide the best possible explanation of issues that occur in sense that fits the white American eyes. At the same time, the media tend to report most directly, the comments, statements and arguments of other powerful institutions, as for example, the government. As a result of this tendency, there are now countless stories in the press and television news, and even in movies, about the African American culture. The emphasis is usually on specific rituals and rites of African American women/ man thus, when a cauasuin woman/ man commit infanticide, it is seen as a direct result of his/her oppressive cultural background. There is no room in this explanation for other factors such as postnatal depression or isolation. The action is conveniently explained as an oppressive and backward cultural tradition. Media images which continually target and emphasize on negative aspect of African American community. The institutional inequality...
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...Speaking Out about Malt Case Study As the associate vice president for plant management at Whitewater Brewing Company, Mary Davis believes that the marketing of those cheap high-alcohol malt liquor is immoral and unethical, because these potentially harmful products may cause many problems in urban communities. Rafter, a malt liquor brewed by Whitewater Brewing Company, is bottled in a 40-ounce size like many other similar products, which are popular with inner-city teenagers. 40s have leaded to many teenage quick drinkers by whom 40s are called “liquid crack” and “date rape brew.” Some brewers don’t even put their company name on the label in order to avoid the indication of being manufactured by a respectable company. According to his categorical imperative, morally actions are defined as those can be made into a maxim that would be applied universally without contradictions, meaning that if the act cannot be accepted for all rational humans then the action is not moral. Using Kant's theory to distinguish right from wrong, we could conclude that the decisions of Whitewater Brewing Company’s board are immoral by applying the test of universal law. On one hand, if there is a maxim that all brewers would produce cheap high-alcohol malt drinks which teenagers can easily get and affordable. The CEO Ralph Jenkins himself and the families of the company board would resist those products because their children are under the same risk of adolescent alcohol abuse. On the other hand...
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...Liberty Tax Service S.W.O.T Analysis By: Lorne Wright Term: Winter Professor: Fairbrother Introduction Liberty Tax Service is a United States based business that specialize in the preparation of tax returns for both individuals and businesses. It originated in Canada in September 1997, when the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) John Hewitt acquired a Canadian tax franchisor, U& R Tax Depot. In 1998, the company became known as Liberty Tax Service and opened five offices in the U.S. The founder and CEO, Hewitt is nationally recognized within the tax industry. He is considered a veteran for his forty-four tax seasons of experience, founder of two top tax preparation firms, and for being a former regional director of H&R Block. His experience and prestige’s background landed him as one of the accounting profession’s top 100 most influential people eleven times. Strength Liberty Tax Service has several strengths. The major strength that this organization has is that it has a wide forum of accounting professionals. These accounting professional includes certified public accounting (CPA), chief financial officers (CFO), accounting students and community residents who have completed the liberty tax course. This enables liberty to serve all the members of the community effectively due to its professionally adequate structure of individuals. The ability to have all these professionals makes the organization look more attractive to the clients. This organization...
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...let’s go out and fight for liberty...so they went out and got killed without ever once thinking about liberty. And what kind of liberty were they fighting for anyway? How much liberty and whose idea of liberty?” (Trumbo 110). The use of propaganda were used to coerce the working class to fight the war. Phrases of “democracy” and “liberty” drew people in, not knowing what it meant. Oppressing the purpose of war from citizens brought false realities of what...
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...Amanda Lund Professor Leonard ENC 1101 4 February 2014 Mother of Exiles She is the most recognizable woman in the world, but what is the significance of the sexuality of the Statue of Liberty? Most people have little to no knowledge over why this monumental statue is a woman. It has been debated over the years about her true significance. Some believe it was just choice and that she’s just a 152 foot tall, green woman in a robe, with a torch in one hand, book in the other. The truth, the representation of the statue of liberty portrayed as a woman has everything to do with her sexuality, it was not just a coincidence. She was designed and sculpted by the French freeman, Auguste Bartholdi in 1878. It took him and his crew a long 9 years of building until it was finally completed in 1884. It was believed that he had a vision of a “magnificent” goddess with a torch in one hand welcoming visitors to the “land of freedom and opportunity” (Bond). Therefore, as you would guess, he constructed a goddess. Specifically, Libertas meaning “liberty” (“The Statue of Liberty and Statue”), derived from ancient Rome. Her role, to stand for freedom of slavery, oppression and tyranny. Surprisingly, her posture wasn’t based off of the goddess, but on what the Colossus was thought to look like before the earthquake destroyed it in the nineteenth century. Colossus was a statue in the city of Rhodes of a Greek titan Helios. A giant copper statue, standing straight up with head held high...
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...The primary focus of this article “John Wilkes and the Constitutional Right to a Free Press in the United States” by Mellen Roger P explores a connection that was previously overlooked on how Wilkes was a key impetuously involved in the Constitutional Protection for Free Press. John Wilkes was admired in the American Colonies as a political journalist, a fighter for liberty and a radical politician during his era. He was significantly involved in influencing revolutionaries who essentially fought for American independence. However, modern historians have forgotten and ignored the role he played in protecting civil liberties by ensuring that they had the right to Freedom of the Press. He was often arrested as a result of printing and writing...
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...14, 1789, a precedent was set for a new brand of political struggle as Parisians stormed the Bastille, sparking the French Revolution and beginning a new era in popular government. This Revolution, in addition to reshaping Europe in the nineteenth century, would be the inspiration for many revolutions to follow, including the Russian Revolution. Furthermore, it established a collection of values which many revolutions would aim to uphold: liberty, equality, and fraternity. Chicago Historian Sheila Fitzpatrick, however, argues that these are aims that “almost all victorious revolutionaries inevitably dishonour.”1 By examining the Cuban and Russian Revolutions, this can be seen to be too general a statement. Under Lenin, the Russian Revolution instituted one of the most progressive constitutions yet seen,2 while Cuba, with its unique role in relations between two Cold War superpowers, stayed mostly true to its primary goals of attaining social justice and equality. The objective that tends to be the most fraught by revolutions is liberty, because in order to completely reshape a society, power must be, at least for a time, concentrated in the hands of few. Thus, the Russian Revolution, particularly under Stalin, can be said to have dishonoured the goals of the original revolution, while the Cuban Revolution under Castro, for the most part, did not. The aim of eliminating inequality was central to both the Russian and Cuban Revolutions. Since before its independence, Cuba...
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...Judiciaries Focus upon the idea of law enforcement and statutory interpretation. Link the judiciary to the concept of the rule of law and thus to the constitutional importance of an independent judiciary in a modern liberal democracy Role – law enforcement, statutory interpretation, legality of government decisions, application of EU and HRA, protect citizens rights and liberties and potential for involvement in political process (note reduced by creation of Supreme Court however some judges will still seek to make political points especially with regard to political interference in judicial decision making). Consider issues of relative importance between the above factors. Role and power of judiciaries Powers – Judicial Review, Human Rights Act and application of EU law in the UK. Traditionally UK judiciaries only had judicial oversight of decision making by public bodies thus lacking legislative oversight but this has come into force with application of HRA and EU legislation albeit for HRA can only highlight incompatibility and not strike down as in case of US (note can force compliance in case of EU law) Judicial Review – applies to all public bodies can be granted on grounds of ultra vires, irrationality of decision and discrimination. Most cases filtered out in advance and rare for public body to lose (approx 5%). High profile cases such as Herceptin, Standard Life and BAE have forced government and public bodies to change actions (note latter Government won after appeal...
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...Democracy in Pakistan: Before discussing the present condition of democracy in Pakistan it seems necessary to state the important constituent elements of democracy. * Democracy is a system which increases and defends civil liberties. It limits the power of government and its institutions. * Democracy helps government to regulate its moral, economical and political matters. * Democracy provides intellectual, religious and political freedom to citizens. * Democracy establishes a society which rewards its citizens on merit rather than on status, rank or privilege * Democracy establishes laws to promote the standard of living of the citizen. If we analyze the condition of Pakistan it can easily be realized that do democracy is not being practiced in Pakistan in its true spirit. The first step being civil liberties is extinct. A laborer Baba Jan; the LPP organizer in Gilgit Bultislan, has to face ant terror trail because he was the demanded compensation for flood victims. He was tortured and beaten brutally for organizing protests Being a sovereign Islamic republic, the constitution of Pakistan gives basic rights to its citizens. They are freedom of belief, freedom to express his views publicly freedom to have information, freedom to from association, and freedom to bear arms. But in practice that freedom is not granted equally to all groups of society. If we consider the condition of regulation of government, it is going worst from bad. Take the example...
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..."If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." This quote from the book 1984, by George Orwell, portrays a theme that is consistent throughout the novel: freedom. Imagine a world where you have no freedoms; you cannot state your opinion and even having your own thoughts could be detrimental. Well, George Orwell decided to take this idea and create a story out of it called 1984. This novel is definitely worth the read and deserves to be discussed. First, I will assess the importance of reading this novel. Then, I will compare Orwell's vision of the future to our reality by looking at the government's power, our civil rights, and how technology advancements have affected our freedoms. Although...
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...Civil Liberties, Habeas Corpus, and the War on Terror Robin Blankenship POL201: American National Government (GSI1325J) Instructor Amy Lyons January 22, 2013 In our Nation’s history, we have to consider the legality of the Government’s concerning our civil liberties. The habeas Corpus Act and the War on Terror are full of facts and issues that have brought me to address areas that cover the historical evolution, the suspension of habeas corpus, the importance of this act and the evaluation from different perspectives such as the media and the U.S. Supreme Court. Habeas Corpus is a most extraordinary court order of the judges’ power over a human being. “The Habeas Corpus Act passed by Parliament in 1679 guaranteed this right in law, although its origins go back much further, probably to Anglo-Saxon times. It is Latin for "you may have the body” It is a writ which requires a person detained by the authorities be brought before a court of law so that the legality of the detention may be examined.”(BBC NEWS) Habeas Corpus stemmed from the legal traditions of English law, and the Framers of the United States acknowledged the importance of the law. The United States followed and studied this tradition focusing mainly on the effects of the American Civil War, adopting it as “The Privilege of the writ of Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended unless when in cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”(Revised 9/11) Habeas Corpus is in direct...
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