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Response by Managing Director (Dur. 15 Min Queen's
Award ceremony - honouring
(name of company omitted)
My Lord, Lieutenant Phillip and Lady Wroughton, Councillors, distinguished
guests, much to my satisfaction and maybe to yours, this ceremony does not
make a ceremonial speech with all its trimmings mandatory.
However, although silence at times is golden, on an occasion such as this, I
would not be doing my duty as Managing Director of (name of company
omitted****) if I did not speak of the pleasure the award we celebrate has
brought us.
Further, it is not very often if at all that a company such as ours gets an
opportunity to make a presentation to a group, representative of the cream of
the crop.
It is therefore with an unenviable sense of pride that I say (name of company
omitted) (Europe) in this hour, has the undivided attention of Lords lieutenant,
politicians, lawyers and journalists.
The experience of the pulling power of this awards ceremony, will spur me
and my ever innovative and dedicated colleagues, all 80 of us to refocus and
set our sights again, firmly on the summit of the ladder of success.
We see the UK’s top award for business performance we receive tonight, as
a reward for the resourcefulness, sound judgment and tenacity of
management and our staff’s diligence, physical daring and tact; attributes
that propel (company) upwards, rung by rung.
The year was 1994, Graeme Obree, riding a home-made bike, became the
world pursuit champion over four-thousand metres.1994, the year Hollywood
defined the features for movies on compact discs and Nelson Mandela was
elected president of South Africa.
It was also the year which marked the tenth anniversary of the introduction of
the first Laser Jet printer (with all-in-one toner cartridges) that became the
plank of the new technology and birth of (end of clip).
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(W R K White ) Speaks on Christian Broadcasting
(Address a Women’s Group In Hale, Cheshire)
There was a time when a radio was a luxurious addition to the family room.
The television that followed decades later also became a kind of status
symbol for the well off in the community.
I am certain that all of us here have memories of the days when our mothers
and fathers relied on the wireless for news, various bits of information, some
forms of entertainment including music and drama, some aspects of
education and of course live and recorded Sunday morning services.
Radio that ushered in true mass communication at the turn of the twentieth-
century continues to be a primary source of information, news, and
entertainment created to satisfy the tastes of the public.
It is therefore important that the gate-keepers in broadcasting and those who
enact legislation to control it recognise the industry’s responsibility to all the
groups of listeners and in the case of television viewers who make up the
public.
It is also desirous that legislators and broadcasters are inspired to be on
guard against programming which as much as hint of being abusive or
contain material created to denigrate any group or public on the basis of
race, ethnic origin, colour, age, sex or religion.
In today’s society, the broadcaster has the additional responsibility to ensure
that programming does not infringe the fundamental rights and freedoms of
any section of the public.
We may tend to speak of public lightly except of course we subscribe to the
view that whenever public is mentioned, we are really dealing with the term in
the plural. This would mean that public would become ‘various publics.’ This
should not be too difficult to understand against the back drop of the
broadcast industry as broadcasters can in fact choose and target the public
they serve as they see it fit.
In media circles there is general agreement that there are as many publics
as there are groups with varying levels of income, education, tastes and civic
awareness; as there are groups of different political allegiances and different
religious loyalties.
It follows then that the broadcaster as well as the legislator must recognise
that what attracts and holds the attention of one public, may be considered
trivial by another.
They must also take cognisance of the fact that each public this argument
alludes to is not static. In other words it is subject to change as issues,
tastes and demography change.
The kind of change we speak about here, was obviously recognised by
architects of change at the BBC when they established Radios, one, two,
three and four. The move was an open attempt to cater for various publics.
(end of clip)…
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MY COMMUNITY IS MY VESTED INTEREST (Dur 20')
Address by M.S. Meg( not real name) to The World Federation of KSIM
(Your Greetings and Salutations)
All of us assembled here honour an organisation of which we are proud.(And
) our pride is not without foundation. To begin with, we can boast that as
members of this community, we belong to a one of a kind international
organization The World Federation of KSIM Communities.
We know that our Federation is admired as one of the better organized
groups in our part of the world. But today our member communities in
Europe stand at a crossroad.
We can choose to turn around or we can follow the arrow that leads to the
implementation of the recommendation of the Constitution Review
Committee.
As we all know the proposal before us, calls for the World Federation - of
which I say again we are justifiably proud to be limited to Regional
Federations.
I am painfully aware that while the CRC in its wisdom and with the help of the
Almighty performed its task objectively, there are those among us who would
prefer to guard the past and the present and maintain the status quo.
(And ) here, I can't help but remind us of an expression well known, in our
communities: He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never
be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress.
I hasten to assure you that the CRC could have been constrained to adopt a ;
play it safe position. But we believe that we owed more to the men, women
and children of our membership and the
(end of clip)
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President's Annual Report Statement by Johnny Tallfellow ( not real name)
The Board of Directors, Volunteers and Staff have continued to work hard to
improve the service provided to members, as well as to ensure that all
returns are made available to the relevant authorities on time.
Board of Directors, at the 2004 AGM, six new directors were approved, of
these four have completed their directors training and have been accepted by
he Financial Services Authority (FSA).
I would like to thank all directors and volunteers for their continued
commitment to ICECUL. Financial Review.
Once again I must report that the trend of share withdrawal by members has
continued. Also, that this has resulted in a decrease in loan interest. When I
highlighted this trend in my report last year, I also pointed out that the
dividends recommended by the Board will be dependant upon the year's
profits of which loan interest is the prime source. Although there has been a
slight reduction in members and not withstanding share withdrawals, Share
Capita (end of clip)
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