Elisabetta Canalis

Elisabetta Canalis,

Elisabetta Canalis (Sassari, 12 September 1978) is a showgirl and actress Italian.

Biography 

After his school leaving certificate, awarded by the Lyceum "FROM Azuni" of Sassari, moved to Milan to attend the degree course in Languages and Literature of the 'State University. At that time he participated in various castings, including one for the movie The fish love to Leonardo Pieraccioni.

In 1999, as well as valet to attend to Telegatti and create a spot for chocolate M & M's, was chosen as the tissue for transmission Striscia la Notizia and held that role until 2002, paired with Maddalena Corvaglia.

The two tissues posed for the calendar in 2002 , annexed to the October 2001 magazine GQ that, for the occasion, was offered for sale at a price of 12,000 pounds, with a circulation of 700,000 copies.

After the success of the sexy calendar 2003 for the magazine Max, Canalis became valley in two editions of the sports program Controcampo, broadcast on Italy 1, also starred in the third and fourth series of fiction Carabinieri.

In 2003, paired with Federica Fontana, led the program comic Ciro presenta Visitors and a year later the sequel Super Ciro, again on an Italy.

In 2004 took part in a video clip of the song of Silverchair, cohabiting, shot in park garden Sigurtà.

To record a couple of stakes in film production in the United States, film Deuce Bigalow - Cherub on sale (2005), by Mike Bigelow, and Decameron Pie (2007), by David Leland, but in both cases is little more than a walk on part.

In 2005 leads a week Striscia la Notizia with former colleague Maddalena Corvaglia.

In 2006, replacing Michelle Hunziker, was involved with Fabio De Luigi 's second season of the sitcom Love Bugs, directed by Mark Limbe, and took part in the cine-panettone Christmas in New York, of Blacks relatives, where she played the daughter of Christian De Sica. Meanwhile, the latter joined by some television commercials of Tim where he became a testimonial.

Returned alongside Sandro Piccinini in Controcampo Last Minute early in the season 2006/2007.

In 2007 he was a guest of the program sets the band's Gialappa Never say Tuesday, assisting in conducting the Forest Mage. Led, moreover, the Festivalbar 2007 with Julius Goliath and Henry Silvestrin. That same year he participated as a surprise guest at the first Good, transmission Ale and Franz based on improvisation, broadcast on Italy One.

In 2009 he started working for the network MTV Italy, alongside the VJ Charles Shepherd in the daily run of the show Total Request Live, replacing Elena Santarelli. Paired with the same conductor, the 16 May 2009, he presented the MTV TRL Awards 2009, in Piazza Unità d'Italy at Trieste.

In 2010 was hired to play roles in five episodes of the television series American Leverage - Consulting illegal. The recitation of Canalis is the subject of considerable criticism by bloggers from overseas, who have called it "terrible" and "incapable of acting."

Career 

Elisabetta Canalis with George Clooney at 66th Venice International Film Festival of Venice (2009).

Cinema 

2005 - Deuce Bigalow - Child in balance (Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo), directed by Mike Bigelow

2006 - Christmas in New York, directed by Blacks Relatives

2007 - Decameron Pie (Virgin Territory), directed by David Leland

2008 - The second time is never forgotten, directed by Francesco Ranieri Martinotti

2008 - The girlfriend of Dad, directed by Henry Oldoini

2010 - A Christmas Wedding Planner, directed by Paolo Costella

TV dramas 

The 2,003th/2004 - Police 3-4, directed by Raffaele Mertes - TV Series - Channel 5

2005 - Love Bugs 2, directed by Mark Limbe - Sit-com - Italy 1

2008 - Doctors me, directed by Massimo Martelli - Sit-com - Italy 1

2010 - Welcome Brothers, directed by Paul Costella - Miniseries TV - Channel 5

2010 - Leverage - Consulting illegal - U.S. television series - TNT / Joi / LA7

TV 

Striscia la Notizia (1999-2002)

Reverse (2002-2007)

Stars in fours (2002)

Ciro presenta Visitors (2003)

Superciro (2004)

Striscia la Notizia (2004/2005, presenter for a week)

Never say Tuesday (2007)

Festivalbar (2007)

Enjoy the first (2007, an episode)

Trofeo Birra Moretti (2008)

Arthur (2008)

Total Request Live (2009)

Notes 

^ "Canalis submerged by the U.S. criticism". TGcom. com, 06/24/2010.

Other projects 

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Emilio Botín

Emilio Botín (born 1 October 1934) is a Spanish banker. He is the Executive Chairman of Spain's Grupo Santander. In 1993 his bank absorbed Banco Español de Crédito (Banesto), and in 1999 it merged with Banco Central Hispano creating Banco Santander Central Hispano (BSCH), which became Spain's largest bank, of which he was co-president with Central Hispano's José María Amusategui, until Amusategui retired in 2002. In 2004, BSCH acquired the British bank Abbey National, making BSCH the second largest bank in Europe by market capitalisation. In July 2008 Santander was named the Best Bank in the World by Euromoney magazine.

Background and personal life

Botín, Marques Consort of O'Shea, was born in Santander, Cantabria, on the northern coast of Spain. After attending as a boarding student the Jesuit school of Colegio de la Inmaculada, in Gijón, he studied Law at the University of Valladolid in Valladolid and Economics at the University of Deusto in Bilbao. In 1986 Emilio Botín, then aged 52, took over from his father as president of the Banco de Santander, one of many banks that existed in Spain at the time. Botín was no newcomer to the banking world. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all bankers.
Botín is married to Paloma O'Shea, Marquess of O'Shea, a patron of the arts, and they have six children. Botín's favorite pastimes are hunting, fishing and golf. In 2005 Forbes put Emilio Botín's net worth at $1.7 billion.[citation needed] Botín's daughter, Ana Patricia Botín, is now President of Banesto, and widely viewed as his probable successor as President.
On 25 April 2008, two people died in a plane crash south of Madrid at a property belonging to Emilio Botin. Neither was a member of the banking family. The light aircraft, which was attempting to land at an airstrip on the Botin property known as El Castano, was transporting 441 pounds of hashish.



Banco Santander

The 1999 merger between Santander and Banco Central Hispano (BCH) was designed to be a “merger of equals” in which the top executives of the two pre-existing firms would share control of the merged entity. Soon after the merger former BCH executives accused Botin of trying to push his own agenda and threatened to take legal action against him. This post-merger squabbling was resolved when BCH executives Jose Amusategui and Angel Corcostegui agreed to accept severance payments, retire and renounce to control to Botin, at an expense to shareholders of €164M. The large termination payouts generated negative press and Botin was eventually brought to trial on criminal charges of “misappropriation of funds” and “irresponsible management.” However, in April, 2005 he was cleared of all charges. The verdict said the €164M retirement payments made to the two former executives were legal, “made as compensation for the services provided to the bank.”
In 2005 the anti-corruption division of the Spanish public prosecutor's office cleared Botin of all charges in a separate case in which he was accused of insider trading.[citation needed]
In January 2006, a Santander, Spain court dismissed a lawsuit stemming from the cancellation of agreements reached by the SCH board in 2004. In his ruling, the judge said that the case brought by the plaintiffs was 'merely an excuse to vent personal differences between them and the [Banco Santander] chairman. The plaintiffs were ordered to pay Botin’s legal fees.
Then, in November, 2006 Botin was brought to trial along with four other company directors for allegedly falsifying official documents and helping clients evade taxes. Spanish press sources reported that although Botin was accused of crimes against the state, the public prosecutor resisted bringing the case to trial. Private prosecution was brought by a prominent shareholder rights group, the Association for the Defense of the Investor and Clients (ADIC), which claimed that the charges against him constituted the "biggest fraud ever committed in Spain.” Botin evaded serving a jail sentence after the case was dismissed, and an appellate court rejected an appeal brought by ADIC.[citation needed]
Subsequently Botin’s legal troubles continued. Most recently Botin’s name has been in the news because of allegations that in 1999, at the time of the BCH merger, he bribed Spain’s economy minister, Rodrigo Rato, in order to seek favor with government officials. Botin and Rato, alongside a group of former associates have been accused of engineering a deal in which Banesto, a Santander subsidiary currently controlled by Botin’s daughter Ana Patricia Botin, purchased a €6M stake in a bankrupt water utility owned by the Rato family. Rato, Botin, and Alfredo Saenz, who was then serving as Banesto’s CEO, are accused of misappropriating funds, breach of fiduciary duty, falsifying documents, and bribery. The case is ongoing.
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Skank (band)

Skank is a Brazilian britpop/reggae band, begun in 1991, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. As of 2004, they had sold approximately 5,200,000 copies of their albums. Initially intending to mix dancehall with traditional Brazilian styles, later the band changed its sonority to music closer to Britpop and local movement Clube da Esquina.

Biography

In 1983, Samuel Rosa (guitars, vocals) and Henrique Portugal (keyboards) started to play in a reggae band called "Pouso Alto", along with Dinho Mourão (drums) and his brother Alexandre (bass). In 1991, Pouso Alto arranged for a performance in São Paulo, but due to the Mourão brothers not being in Belo Horizonte, bassist Lelo Zaneti and drummer Haroldo Ferretti were called for the gig.  The band premiered on June 5, 1991, and due to the performance competing with the Campeonato Paulista final match, the audience was 37 people. After the show, the group changed its name to Skank, inspired by Bob Marley's song "Easy skanking", and began to perform regularly at "Mister Beef" churrascaria in Belo Horizonte.

Skank (1992/1993)

“ Imagine a bunch of white boys from BH playing reggae. Who would have bet on that? ”

—Samuel Rosa on their beginnings, Revista da Web, October 1999

After playing for some time in churrascarias, bars and clubhouses, the band spent US$10,000 in their first album, Skank, released as an independent CD in late 1992 with 3,000 copies, fully paid by the band members themselves. In 45 days, 1,200 were sold[5], and Sony Music signed the band as the first Brazilian act in its Chaos label. Skank was re-released in April 1993. The singles "O Homem Que Sabia Demais", "Tanto" (version of Bob Dylan's "I Want You") e "In(Dig)Nação" took the group on a 120 concerts tour around Brazil, and the album sold 250 thousand copies.

[edit]Calango (1994)

Calango (1994) was the first record produced by Dudu Marote. "É Proibido Fumar", "Te Ver", "Pacato Cidadão", "Esmola" and "Jackie Tequila" were hits, and Calango sold around 1,200,000 copies.

O Samba Poconé (1996)

O Samba Poconé was released in 1996. The album had three big hits, "Tão Seu", "É Uma Partida de Futebol", included by FIFA in the official soundtrack for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, and "Garota Nacional" which topped the Spanish charts for three months[8][9] (under the Spanish title "Chica Nacional"), was the only Portuguese language song in the Sony Music compilation Soundtrack For a Century, released in 1997 to celebrate the company's centennial, and took the group on tour in Argentina, Chile, United States, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Portugal[10]. Although "Garota Nacional" literally translates to "national girl", the song is not about the women of Brazil: it celebrates the "girls of Bar Nacional", a bar and nightclub in Belo Horizonte famous in the early 1990s for the beauty of its female patrons. Manu Chao featured in "Sem Terra", "Los Pretos" e "Zé Trindade". "O Samba Poconé" sold 1,800,000 cópias - 800,000 of those in two months.

Siderado (1998)

Siderado, produced by John Shaw (UB 40) and Paul Ralphes, begins the band's movement towards a more rock and roll sound. The Clube da Esquina-influenced "Resposta" (re-recorded in 1999 by Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges, the latter the song's co-author with Samuel Rosa and Nando Reis), "Mandrake e Os Cubanos" and "Saideira" were hits. Released in 1998, Siderado sold 750 thousand copies. Daúde and Uakti participated as guest artists.

In 1999 Skank recorded an Spanish language version for "Wrapped Around Your Finger" in a tribute album for The Police entitled Outlandos d'America.

[edit]Maquinarama (2000)

With Maquinarama, the band begins in earnest its move away from the ska and reggae sound towards a more rock oriented one influence by The Beatles, Clube da Esquina, Britpop and contemporary alternative rock. Maquinarama, produced by Chico Neves and Tom Capone and released in July 2000, sold 275 thousand copies. Some of the hit singles were "Três Lados", "Balada do Amor Inabalável" and "Canção Noturna". The original cover shows a Cadillac with graffiti by Californian artist Kenny Scharf. The international version has a different cover.

[edit]MTV ao vivo (2001)

In 2001, Skank recorded the first live album in Ouro Preto as part of the MTV Brasil's series "MTV Ao Vivo". MTV Ao Vivo sold 600 thousand copies[12]. Besides a list of hits chosen by fans through Skank's website, the album had the new song "Acima do Sol", a national hit. In 2002 Samuel Rosa played acoustic guitar in "É Proibido Fumar", from the Acústico MTV (MTV Unplugged) by Roberto Carlos.

“ We would rather lose audience for sounding strange than for sounding stale ”

—Samuel Rosa on the different sound of the band from Maquinarama onwards, Revista Bizz, August 2006

[edit]Cosmotron (2003)

Cosmotron, produced by Skank and Tom Capone, was released in July 2003 and sold 250 thousand copies - a disappointment next to their vigorous previous sales figures. Nevertheless the album had many radio and ringtone hits. "Supernova", "Dois Rios", "Vou Deixar" and "Amores Imperfeitos" were the main tracks. Cosmotron won the Latin Grammy - best Brazilian rock album award in 2004.

[edit]Radiola (2004)

Released in October 2004, Radiola was the first compilation album by Skank. It included four new songs, including the Gilberto Gil cover "Vamos Fugir". The cover reproduces a painting by the hyped Los Angeles artists the Clayton Brothers. Radiola sold 200 thousand copies.

[edit]Carrossel (2006)

In March 2006 Skank began recording the new album Carrossel in their studio in Belo Horizonte, with producers Chico Neves, who also worked in Maquinarama, and Carlos Eduardo Miranda, producer the Acústico MTV album by O Rappa. Released in August, the album (a commercial disaster) had the semi-hits "Uma Canção É Pra Isso" and "Mil Acasos". Arnaldo Antunes ("Trancoso"), César Mauricio ("Lugar") and Humberto Effe ("Cara Nua" and "Notícia") were the songwriting partners.

International career

“ Brazil is big enough for us. Doing shows abroad and exposing a diverse audience to our music demands a lot of time and energy. ”

—Haroldo Ferretti

Skank had some success with "Garota Nacional", that lead the Spanish charts, and "É Uma Partida de Futebol" was shown before some games of the 1998 World Cup due to being in the championship's soundtrack. By the time of O Samba Poconé, the group toured through Latin America and Europe, and appeared in big festivals such as Super Bock/Super Rock 1997 in Portugal , Páleo Festival 97 in Suíça, St. Gallen 98 in Switzerland, Montreux Jazz Festival 2001, and SummerStage 2002 in New York City. The group was also called for Rock in Rio III in 2001, but went out along with other Brazilian bands in protest against O Rappa's exclusion.

However, the band never invested much in its international career. Some songs received versions in Spanish, such as "Chica Nacional" ("Garota Nacional"), and "Respuesta" ("Resposta"), but foreign shows are usually in places with many Brazilians, such as Miami and New York City.

Members

Samuel Rosa - vocals and guitar

Lelo Zaneti - bass

Henrique Portugal - keyboard, backing vocals

Haroldo Ferretti - drums

Discography

Skank (1993, 250,000 copies sold)

Calango (1994, 1,250,000 copies sold

O Samba Poconé (1996, 1,800,000 copies sold

Siderado (1998, 750,000 copies sold)

Maquinarama (2000, 275,000 copies sold)

Skank MTV ao vivo (2001, 600,000 copies sold)

Cosmotron (2003, 400,000 copies sold)

Radiola (2004, 240,000 copies sold)

Carrossel (2006, 200,000 copies sold)

Estandarte (2008, 70,000 copies sold)

[edit]Awards

Cosmotron won the Latin Grammy Award - Best Brazilian rock album in 2004.

Skank received the Premio Ondas in Spain as New Latin Group in 1997.

MTV Video Music Brasil: Viewer's Choice in 1996 ("Garota Nacional") and 1997 ("É Uma Partida de Futebol"); Video of the Year in 1999 ("Mandrake e os Cubanos"); Pop Video in 1996("Garota Nacional"), 1997("É Uma Partida de Futebol"), 1999("Mandrake e os Cubanos"), 2000 ("Três Lados"), 2003 ("Dois Rios") and 2004 ("Vou Deixar").

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