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The Packer family has appointed its television and magazine head, John Alexander, as chief lieutenant of its $8.5 billion Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd after the sudden departure of managing director and chief executive Peter Yates.
Mr Yates said yesterday he had decided to forgo the remaining two years of his five-year contract "for personal reasons" and would vacate his post immediately for Mr Alexander, the head of PBL Media and its magazine division, Australian Consolidated Press.
The announcement surprised the market, chiefly because PBL is in a stalemate with Burswood over a $686 million bid for the Perth casino operator.
However, that didn't stop PBL shares from racing 7� ahead to a three-year high of $12.54.
A PBL source strongly denied Mr Yates had been pushed, suggesting the former investment banker had discussed his future with the company several times in the past few months.
However, it is believed that Kerry Packer and PBL executive chairman James Packer chose the timing of the transition themselves and that Mr Yates was only made aware of their decision on Tuesday.
In a rare public statement yesterday, Kerry Packer said: "I would like to thank Peter for his leadership. We are sure Peter will continue to make a significant contribution to corporate Australia and we wish him well."
James Packer said Mr Yates' three-year tenure had left PBL in much better shape.
"He has brought the PBL group businesses together, which has allowed us to capitalise on the scale of the company," he said.
In other changes to the board, Mr Packer snr was elevated from his non-executive role to the deputy chairman's seat. The empty directorship will be filled by Chris Anderson, who resigned as chief executive of Optus last month.
Mr Alexander - a former editor-in-chief at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Financial Review - will remain in charge at ACP, though David Gardiner will be elevated to deputy chief executive.
However, Mr Alexander will step aside as top dog at Channel Nine, making way for his understudy, David Gyngell.
"It is a great honour to be offered this exciting opportunity to develop further Australia's best collection of media and entertainment assets," Mr Alexander said.
Analysts agreed that the changes had more to do with PBL focusing on the direction of its media businesses, an area in which Mr Alexander had performed well since his arrival at ACP in 1998.
"John Alexander is probably the best media manager in Australia at the moment," said CCZ Equities analyst Roger Colman. "Mr Yates' work was done. This just represents the fact that Kerry Packer had an employee that he didn't need."
Mr Colman said the reshuffle also ensured that rival John Fairfax Holdings - owner of The Age - didn't get its hands on two of the most highly regarded media operators in the country in Mr Alexander and Mr Anderson.
Fairfax is on the hunt for a new chief executive following last month's announcement that Fred Hilmer would step down some time next year.
When asked about the now-available Mr Yates, Fairfax chairman Dean Wills was coy: "The process started once we made the announcement about Fred Hilmer. It will involve anybody that might be a prospect."
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COLUMBUS -- Ohioans will mark the 50th anniversary of John Glenn's historic orbit around the planet with a special day in his honor.
Feb. 20 was designated by state lawmakers and Gov. John Kasich as John Glenn Friendship 7 Day, honoring the occasion this year and in years to come. Kasich signed the legislation into law just before Christmas but played host to a ceremonial bill signing Friday at the Statehouse, with Glenn and his wife, Annie, participating.
Friendship 7 was the name of the spacecraft that carried Glenn as he circled the Earth three times on Feb. 20, 1962.
"The measure of courage that that mission represented is indelible in human history," said Sen. Tom Sawyer, a Democrat from Akron who sponsored the legislation. "... It was appropriate that we recognize this achievement in perpetuity in the state of Ohio, that we do this every year."
Glenn, a distinguished Marine pilot and longtime U.S. senator, was the first American to orbit the planet and, later, the oldest to travel into space. He turned 90 last year.
Glenn said Friday he hoped the day named in his honor would encourage young people to stay in school and use their talents to the fullest.
"If something like this commemorative day can bring attention to some of the possibilities of this country and particularly for our kids, then the whole thing is worth it," he said.
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CD Projekt Red has officially announced the release date for the third installment in The Witcher series as well as a special Collector's Edition.
The collector's edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt contains a great deal of content:
- All the contents from the standard edition of the game
- A giant, 33x24x26 cm (10"), 100% hand painted, Polystone figure of Geralt of Rivia battling a Griffin
- An exquisite, collector-grade Witcher medallion
- A one-of-a-kind SteelBook™ box
- A two-hundred-page artbook, containing breathtaking art from the game
- Huge outer and inner Collector's Boxes you can store your Witcher merchandise in!
Enclosed with the press release is an image of what's in store, and the statue of Geralt fighting the griffin looks especially detailed.
A price point for the Collector's Edition wasn't released with the press release, but Gamestop does have it listed for $150.
Players who simply want to buy the game are still in luck, especially if they purchase the title in physical form, including:
- A Blu-ray™ Disc with the game (DVDs on PC)
- An exclusive CD with the official soundtrack
- The official, developer-created "Witcher Universe - The Compendium"
- A beautiful, detailed map of the in-game world
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Both the standard and collector's edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will land on the PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One on February 24, 2015. Which edition will you purchase?


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I've got a new "Think Again" column called "Just One DOJ Scandal? Does the MSM have BAADD?" here. It's pretty interesting, by the way, and about stuff I didn't even know until my researcher, Tim, mentioned it to me.
My friend Carroll Bogert, a human rights activist, spent last summer in Russia following the fates of seven ex-Guantànamo detainees who were sent home there against their will in March 2004. The story she found is a really disconcerting one, and not merely because Russian cops are not so nice. It also demonstrates that the Bush administration's latest dodge around international law -- "diplomatic assurances" that countries with torture records won't torture ex-detainees from Guantànamo -- is a complete sham. These "assurances" aren't worth the paper they're written on, and the Russian experience proves it.
Here is part of her report:
Former Guantanamo detainees who were sent home to Russia in 2004 experienced torture and other abuse despite Moscow's pledge to the U.S. government that they would be treated humanely, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
The Russian prisoners' experience illustrates why the United States should stop relying "diplomatic assurances" of fair treatment to justify sending prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to countries where they are at risk of torture.
The seven Russians were all detained soon after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and eventually spent about two years in Guantanamo. Although they complained of mistreatment by the Americans, all of the detainees repeatedly asked authorities at Guantanamo not to be returned to Russia because they expected to be treated worse there. And indeed, three of them experienced serious torture and ill-treatment after being arrested in Russia. Two of them were convicted at unfair trials; and all of them have been harassed and hounded by Russian law enforcement.
The Convention against Torture stipulates that no person may be sent back to a country where he is at real risk of torture and allows no exceptions on national security or other grounds. The United States is a party to the Convention and is therefore violating international law in transferring prisoners to countries where they may face torture. A U.S. government statement to Human Rights Watch made it clear that Washington was aware of the threat of torture in Russia.
Many countries are attempting to deport or extradite terrorism suspects with "diplomatic assurances" as well, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Austria, Netherlands, and Switzerland.
Upon the return of the detainees in March 2004, the Russian government stated publicly that it would prosecute them on terrorism charges and that it would treat them humanely. It did neither. After three months in Russian custody, during which they were not abused, all seven were released and attempted to resume normal lives in Russia, which proved impossible.
Rasul Kudaev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria in southern Russia, was detained after an armed uprising in the provincial capital in October 2005. According to photographs, medical records, court documents, and the testimony of lawyers and family members, Kudaev was repeatedly beaten in custody in an effort to compel him to confess to involvement in the uprising. In a rare display of judicial independence, a local court has ordered prosecutors to reconsider their decision not to investigate Kudaev's claims of abuse. He has still not been prosecuted for his alleged role in the uprising, but remains in custody nearly a year and a half later.
Ravil Gumarov and Timur Ishmuratov, both residents of the Russian republic of Tatarstan, were detained in April 2005 in connection with an explosion on a local gas pipeline in which no one was killed or injured. They were beaten in custody until they confessed; Gumarov was deprived of sleep for approximately one week and shackled to a small cage with his hands over his head, among other abuses.
Gumarov and Ishmuratov recanted their confessions at trial and were acquitted by the jury in September 2005. However, local prosecutors got the verdict "annulled" and won a conviction in May 2006. Although a suspect in another crime confessed to the explosion, local prosecutors never shared that information with lawyers for the ex-Guantanamo detainees.
Two of the detainees told Human Rights Watch that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo had threatened to send them back to Russia if they did not divulge information about their alleged terrorist activities.
The detainees and their families described frequent harassment by Russian police and security services, particularly the Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB, and the organized Crime Department of the Ministry of the Interior. "I was told many times [by Russian authorities] that after my time in Guantanamo, it wasn't necessary to prove I was a terrorist," former detainee Airat Vakhitov told Human Rights Watch. "That any one of us could be thrown in jail because we were terrorists."
The 43-page report, "The 'Stamp of Guantanamo': The Story of Seven Men Betrayed by Russia's Diplomatic Assurances to the United States," reconstructs the experiences of the detainees after being returned to Russia in March 2004, based on interviews with three of the detainees, their family members, lawyers, and others. Access to the ex-detainees is limited because three of them are in prison, three are in hiding, and the only one currently at large in Russia does not wish to give interviews. You can read it here.
"Firing a prosecutor for failing to find wide voter fraud is like firing a park ranger for failing to find Sasquatch," or so argue Michael Waldman and Justin Levitt in The Washington Post today, here. Turns out that much of this scandal is really about justifying voter registration restrictions that effectively keep huge numbers of voters -- disproportionate numbers of which are low-income, people of color and young, newly registered voters -- off the voting rolls.
Scarier than Night of the Living Dead (but profoundly more worrying, and not as well written or acted, alas).
BREAKING: Drudge links to Politico 45 times during its two-month existence
As Media Matters for America has noted, Politico chief political correspondent Mike Allen's March 27 article, "Rookie Mistakes Plague Obama," was apparently flagged by Matt Drudge's website, The Drudge Report, approximately one hour before The Politico posted the article on its website on the evening of March 26. John Harris, Politico editor-in-chief, has written about the media's interest in having their work linked to on the Drudge Report. Several commentators, including blogger Glenn Greenwald, have noted an apparent tendency of Drudge to link to Politico items. Media Matters has reviewed the Drudge Report Archives and found that since The Politico launched on January 23, Drudge has linked to Politico items on at least 45 separate occasions.
THE FCC AND ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS' CONTINUING LEGACY [SOURCE: PR Watch, AUTHOR: Diane Farsetta] [Commentary]
On March 14, House Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell asked FCC Chairman Kevin Martin about the status of the agency's ongoing Armstrong Williams investigation. Williams is a conservative commentator who was retained by the U.S. Education Department, as a subcontractor of the public relations firm Ketchum, to promote the No Child Left Behind Act. Williams' $240,000 government contract and his failure to disclose it, first reported on by USA Today's Greg Toppo in January 2005, spurred public outrage and calls for accountability. To date, two government reports on Williams have been released -- both late on a Friday, presumably to limit media coverage of them. In May 2005, the Education Department's Office of Inspector General stated that it had "found no evidence of any ethical violations," though it admitted there were "poor management decisions," and "poor judgment and oversight." In September 2005, the Government Accountability Office issued a harsher assessment, finding that aspects of the Education Department's contract with Ketchum violated federal law. "The Department violated the publicity or propaganda prohibition when it issued task orders to Ketchum directing it to arrange for Mr. Williams to regularly comment on the NCLB Act without requiring Ketchum to ensure that Mr. Williams disclosed to his audiences his relationship with the Department," concluded the GAO. Meanwhile, the FCC's investigation into the Williams affair remains open. However, Rep. Dingell's recent questioning of FCC Chair Martin did reveal new information, as well as establish a mandate for yet another report, on the status of the agency's ongoing investigation.
NET NEUTRALITY' STRIKES CORD WITH COALITION OF MUSICIANS [SOURCE: Technology Daily, AUTHOR: Michael Martinez]
A coalition of musicians announced a campaign that they hope will rock the nationwide debate over the future of high-speed Internet networks. The "Rock The Net" campaign is being backed by musicians who want Congress to mandate network neutrality, or the principle that broadband network operators should treat all traffic equally. The coalition includes several high-profile artists from varying musical genres, including R.E.M. and OK Go, the band that recently took home the "most creative" trophy in the inaugural awards by the YouTube video-sharing site. Rock The Net is being organized by the Future of Music Coalition, Noise Pop and Zeitgeist Artist Management, and funded by the Proteus Fund's Media Democracy Fund. A series of concerts throughout the country will be held by participating artists to raise awareness on the issue. Media Access Project President Andrew Schwartzman said that for musicians, network neutrality is just as much about uploading content as it is downloading. He said artists should be able to upload without facing higher prices for certain content so they can take advantage of social media and distribute their works. "It really involves people's right to speak as much as it involves their ability to receive information," he said.
- Music Stars Back "Rock the Net" Campaign
- Musicians campaign for free Internet (Associated Press)
CHILDREN'S TV ADS LOADED WITH JUNK FOOD [SOURCE: Associated Press]
In a child's buffet of food commercials, more than 40 percent of the dishes are candy, snacks and fast food. Nowhere to be found: fresh fruit, vegetables, poultry or seafood. For years, health officials have warned that kids were being inundated with commercials about not-so-healthy foods. Now, researchers have put numbers to those warnings in the largest-ever study of commercials aimed at children. "The vast majority of the foods that kids see advertised on television today are for products that nutritionists would tell us they need to be eating less of, not more of, if we're going to get a handle on childhood obesity," said Vicki Rideout of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which conducts health research. Children ages 8-12 see the most food ads on TV -- an average of 21 a day, or 7,600 a year. Teenagers see slightly fewer -- 17 a day, or about 6,000 a year; and children ages 2-7 see the fewest -- 12 a day or 4,400 a year.
- Food for Thought: Television Food Advertising to Children in the United States
- Kaiser Study: Tweens See Most Food Ads
- Forced Feeding
- Study Says Junk Food Still Dominates Youth TV
- No sugarcoating this: Kids besieged by food ads
- Study finds TV feeds children plenty of junk
STUDY FINDS FCC SPECTRUM AUCTIONS ANTI-COMPETITIVE [SOURCE: WirelessIQ]
A new study filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) finds that the FCC's use of auctions for assigning spectrum licenses could be subject to anti-competitive behavior by incumbent carriers. The study performed by Dr. Simon Wilkie, former chief economist at the FCC and current head of the University of Southern California Center for Communications Law and Policy, reviews past auction results and finds that auctions do not work in all circumstances to secure for the public the benefits of the efficient use of spectrum as the law requires the FCC to do. For example, in the recent AWS auctions, the study found that 98% of the spectrum in major metropolitan areas went to incumbents, effectively shutting out any new entrants. _Spectrum Auctions are not a Panacea: Theory and Evidence of Anti- Competitive and Rent Seeking Behavior in FCC Rulemakings and Auction Design_ identified and analyzed four anti-competitive tactics that incumbents use to manipulate the spectrum auction process: 1) Strategically warehousing spectrum in order to prevent entry for potential competitors; 2) Delaying the decision-making process at the FCC by drawing out debates over service rules and unquantifiable arguments over technical matters and other means: 3) Adopting a no holds barred bidding strategy to block new entrants in auctions with insufficient safeguards against incumbent carriers' potentially anti-competitive tactics, and no caps on the overall amount of spectrum that incumbents may hold; and 4) Slicing new available bands for private commercial use that make it more costly or impossible to build a viable national competitive business plan to challenge the incumbents' dominant position.
INCOME GAP WIDENS, DATA SHOWS [SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: David Cay Johnston]
Income inequality grew significantly in 2005, with the top 1 percent of Americans -- those with incomes that year of more than $348,000 -- receiving their largest share of national income since 1928. The top 10 percent, roughly those earning more than $100,000, also reached a level of income share not seen since before the Depression. While total reported income in the United States increased almost 9 percent in 2005, the most recent year for which such data is available, average incomes for those in the bottom 90 percent dipped slightly compared with the year before, dropping $172, or 0.6 percent. The gains went largely to the top 1 percent, whose incomes rose to an average of more than $1.1 million each, an increase of more than $139,000, or about 14 percent. The new data also shows that the top 300,000 Americans collectively enjoyed almost as much income as the bottom 150 million Americans. Per person, the top group received 440 times as much as the average person in the bottom half earned, nearly doubling the gap from 1980.
Anybody else see the Allmans in a bar last night? Well, a big bar (Irving Plaza, next door to The Nation, as it happens), and only two songs, at least by 12:30, but still ...
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Hometown: Cromwell, Connecticut
Is it possible for links that require subscriptions to access be denoted as such?
Eric replies: That's what the "$" symbol next to the item is supposed to mean, thanks.
Name: Josh
Hometown: Chapel Hill
You must be recalling Robert Ferrell's Journal of American History (Dec. 1986) review of Muravchik's book about Jimmy Carter. I'd send it to you but I don't think this e-mail box thing you have down here allows that sort of thing.
Here's the, um, money quote: "The second perplexity is not so much its use by the author as a doctoral dissertation but its acceptance as a piece of scholarship by the Georgetown faculty. The book can stand on its own as an essay on a first-rate subject. But despite its many footnotes it has no scholarly foundation." In academic parlance, I think that's called getting owned.
For my money, the review that appeared in the American Political Science Review (Sept. 1987) is even better. The reviewer there -- David Forsythe -- described Muravchik's book as, variously, "largely predictable, ideological, and unpersuasive" ... "superficial and incomplete"... and "thin." Best line: "A reader may be forgiven for wondering at times whether the book is a justification for the Spanish-American War or Woodrow Wilson's mythical crusade for democracy, rather than an interpretation of Carter's human-rights policy." Ah, those neocons -- you can't say they're not persistent.
Eric replies: Wow. Good work.
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The second perplexity is not so much its use by the author as a doctoral dissertation but its acceptance as a piece of scholarship by the Georgetown faculty. The book can stand on its own as an essay on a first-rate subject. But despite its many footnotes it has no scholarly foundation. State Department records are of course closed. President Carter has not opened his personal papers. Muravchik is reduced to a few interviews and quoting Elizabeth Drew, Ben Wattenberg, and Stanley Hoffmann. The last has a perch at Harvard, but that doesn't mean everything he says is reliable.
-- Robert H. Ferrell, review of The Uncertain Crusade: Jimmy Carter and the Dilemmas of Human Rights Policy, Journal of American History 73, no. 3 (December 1986): 817-8.
Name: Jim Celer
Hometown: Omaha
One thing about Specter that has either been forgotten or determined insignificant: he was the Warren Commission attorney charged with reconstructing the crime, and as such invented the Magic Bullet. So Jordan in Seattle should not be surprised by his gyrations and contortions in the Senate.
Name: Alan T
Hometown: Holland, Pa.
Perhaps someone smarter than I can explain how someone can inform the Senate judicial committee that they WILL be pleading the 5th Amendment without yet knowing what the questions they will be asked are?
I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me that one of the provisions of the 5th Amendment (funny how members of this administration seem to value THEIR rights under the Constitution) allows someone to avoid being forced to testify against themselves, to incriminate themselves of a crime. But how can you testify against yourself without knowing exactly what the question is? What if the only question being asked is whether or not she is a member of the current administration and what her role is. Personally, I'd like to see the "political theater" of her pleading the 5th over and over to each question asked of her by the Senate committee over a span of say, a few hours!
One other point, if you don't mind.
For those who deem it appropriate to question the behavior of the Edwards family in continuing their campaign, it seems to me that we have many people who leave their children behind (and sometimes sick and ailing loved ones), often with the knowledge that they might die before returning to them, sacrificing what might be their last moments with loved ones, because they believe in serving their country. "Some people" might call them heroes, and I don't think that you have to wear a uniform to be one of them. "Some people " might consider Ms. Couric and others who question the Edwards' motives as being unpatriotic, and "not supportive of our troops" when the country is at war! When did it become a liability to sacrifice yourself in the name of doing what you believe is right for your country?
Name: one of many Johns
Hometown: Kansas City, KS
It appears to me that everyone is playing right into Joe Klein's hand. Like Ann Coulter, he will say anything outrageous to get air time, which brings money his way.
Seems to me the best hurt you could put on Klein is to ignore him. Don't give him any print whatsoever. That, or take a page out of the pundit manual and make some made-up statement in which Ann Coulter calls Joe Klein a name, one like she can only make up, and get the two of them jousting in front of the public eye.
Name: Brian Geving
Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
It sure is a crazy world when you get in trouble for voting to end the Iraq War.
Here in Minnesota, Rep. Keith Ellison is in hot water with anti-war protesters that previously supported him because of his vote for the Iraq Spending Bill requiring all troops to leave Iraq by August 2008. While I agree with the anti-war protesters in general, I think that they suffer from tunnel-vision in this case. In their view, any bill that doesn't accomplish everything that they want isn't acceptable, even if it accomplishes half of what they want. They hold out for the perfect bill while sacrificing what can be accomplished now.
The fact is, this bill helps the Democrats immensely, while forcing the Republicans to vote against (and veto) a bill funding the troops. If I was a campaign manager for a Democrat running next year against a incumbant Republican, I would be overjoyed at this opportunity. This is the toughest anti-war bill to come out yet, and tying it to the war funding is simply smart politics. Crafting a bill cutting off all funding now wouldn't have gone anywhere and would be viewed as a defeat for anti-war Democrats. This is all explained here and here.
It take a talented group of Democrats to turn what looks like a defeat into a victory, and I'm glad that Keith Ellison is one of them.
Name: John B
Hometown: Des Moines, IA
Good comments from Simon King on the subject of trade agreements and their effects on illegal immigration. Fervent free traders will go on ad nauseam about how the market will ultimately decide what works and what doesn't, and how it is always wrong for government to interfere. They're wrong, of course, for a simple reason. Nothing stops companies from doing what's beneficial to them individually, but destructive to society as a whole. Of course it's beneficial for a company to seek out decreased costs; that's a given. Unfortunately our manufacturing base has been lost in the U.S. The majority of those workers have only found employment at a greatly reduced standard of living. Free traders would argue that the lost buying power is of no consequence because the people in other countries who now have those jobs will become consumers. The new consumers rev up the economic machine and ultimately everyone is better off. Nice theory, but it won't happen as long as factory workers in developing countries spend their spare time picking through landfills for cardboard and sheet metal to build their homes. Free trade as it is currently practiced is of short-term benefit to the balance sheets of international corporations but damaging to the world economy over the long term. The world is not competing to become the next Silicon Valley, it is in a race to equality with Indonesia. Ironically, the promised benefits of free trade will only become real when governments realize what's really needed is fair trade. Require that workers in other countries be paid a minimum standard of living to earn reduced trade barriers. Those workers will want to stay home with their families and friends, and gain a new taste for consumer products. Our economy will gain from decreased downward pressure on wages and increased economic activity throughout the world. Unfortunately, we'll never get there as long as the debate is dominated by those who believe all government is unnecessary or undesirable.
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A yarn-bomber with a sense of humour has taken their craft skills to the streets of Edinburgh, leaving an amusing sign on roadworks.
Protesting against the tram works on Princes Street the unknown individual left a crocheted sign saying 'Tramway to Hell' on the barriers surrounding the building site, the Scotsman reports.
Market researcher, Mary Gordon, who was one of the first to spot the unusual woollen message told the newspaper that it drew large crowds of people, each keen to take a picture of it.
She said: "I'm certainly familiar with the concept of yarn-bombing, and I know it's been getting more popular here, but I've only ever heard of people, say, covering up benches or handrails to add a bit of colour to the environment, not making a political statement."
Self-confessed knitting and crocheting enthusiast, Ms Gordon claimed that the sign was of "a high standard," admitting that a lot of work had clearly gone into it.
However, despite brightening up commuters' days, the crocheted sign was removed soon after it was erected.
Speaking to the newspaper, councillor Lesley Hinds, who is in charge of the capital's transport, confirmed that the council was responsible for taking down the sign.
"When unofficial banners are put up it's normally the process that they are removed, in case they come loose and flap into the face of a pedestrian or into the path of a cyclist," he argued.
But while, the artwork may no longer be visible he did praise the craftsmanship which had gone into the piece and added that the council were still in possession of it if the owner wished to claim it.
This isn't the first time Edinburgh has become a site of yarn-bombing after benches in Prices Street Garden were decorated with knitted pom-pom bunting during this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival.


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From: (ridsdale)
Subject: GREAT/grand designations
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 13:10:04 -0700 (PDT)
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>From the LDS Library, now known as the Family Stake Library...........
The sist/bro of your GREAT grand parent is your GREAT grand aunt/uncle.
The sist/bro of your grand parent is your grand aunt/uncle.
Technically, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS a GREAT aunt/uncle.
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2012 Hughes Politician in Residence: Patti Solis Doyle
Release date: March 06, 2012
Goucher College's Sarah T. Hughes Field Politics Center is presenting "A Team That Can't Be Beat: Women and Minorities in the Political Arena," a talk by Patti Solis Doyle, the first Hispanic woman to lead a U.S. presidential campaign, on Tuesday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Hyman Forum of the Athenaeum.
This event is free and open to the public, but all attendees must reserve tickets in advance by logging on to www.goucher.edu/tickets or by calling 410-337-6333.
Patti Solis Doyle is a political organizer and strategist who has been part of several of the most important campaigns of the past 30 years, including Richard Daley's 1990 campaign for mayor of Chicago, Bill Clinton's successful bid for president in 1992, Hillary Clinton's election to the U.S. Senate in 2000 and her failed campaign for president, and Barack Obama's victory in 2008.
She has succeeded in a business where it is not only rare for females to lead major campaigns, but where minorities in key positions are even harder to find.
Solis Doyle was among the earliest staffers to join then-Governor Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign; and she was the first hired to work for Hillary Clinton. From 1993 to 2001, Solis Doyle served in the White House as the director of scheduling and advance for the First Lady. In this capacity, she worked to promote Clinton administration policies on children, health care, and women's issues, and to assist with political support for Democratic candidates nationwide.
Solis Doyle took a leave from her White House duties to serve as chief of staff of Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign, where she managed daily operations and coordinated press, policy, political, and scheduling operations. Following Clinton's election, Solis Doyle founded and led the political action committee HILLPAC and Friends of Hillary, Clinton's re-election campaign. From 2001 to 2007, HILLPAC became one of the largest and most successful sources of fundraising for Democrats.
As campaign manager of Clinton's 2008 presidential bid from January 2007 through February 2008, Solis Doyle became the first Hispanic woman to lead a presidential effort in the United States, albeit an unsuccessful one.
During the 2008 general election, Solis Doyle joined the Obama for America campaign as chief of staff for the vice presidential operations. In this role, she built a national team of policy, communications, political, and field operatives prior to the nominee's selection. She later managed day-to-day operations for Joe Biden.
She has been honored with the "2007 Latinas of Excellence Award" by Hispanic Magazine for her accomplishments in the area of government, politics, and civil leadership. Siempre Mujer magazine also honored her as a remarkable Latina whose achievements and contributions to her community is helping shape the future of Hispanic women in this country. Hispanic Business Magazine recently named her one of America's "100 Most Influential Hispanics."
Solis Doyle's appearance at Goucher is sponsored by the Sarah T. Hughes Field Politics Center. Funded by an endowment made by the late Judge Sarah T. Hughes '17, the Sarah T. Hughes Field Politics Center was originally founded in the early 1950s under a grant from the Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation. The center, directed by Eric Singer, Ph.D., chair of the Political Science and International Relations Department, sponsors a variety of activities designed to facilitate student involvement in governmental and political affairs in the Baltimore-Washington region.


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Kolkata, Oct 27: Natraj Behera, who led East Zone to the Duleep Trophy title, credited Bengal pacer Ashok Dinda's seven-wicket haul in their semifinal against South as the turning point of their triumph in tournament.
East Zone was adjudged the Duleep Trophy champions on basis of their first innings lead over Central Zone after both the teams played out a draw at Chepauk on Chennai yesterday.
"It was really a tremendous effort by him. He had an amazing spell. His effort pumped up the spirit and we are all up there eyeing for our second title," the East Zone opener told PTI today.
Dinda had claimed a match winning 7/26 for a nine-wicket match haul to edge out South Zone in the semifinals.
"I'm really excited about the feat (of winning the title twice). I'm told that it has never happened before. I'm sure it would act as a confidence-booster ahead of the Ranji Trophy," he said.
The 24-year-old said that team spirit was as strong as that in the last season which was important for their campaign.
"The focus was on the team spirit. We almost had the same side - barring Wriddhiman Saha, Shreevats Goswami. But most were the same. My focus was to bring the best from the team. Even in good or bad phases, we wanted to play as a team."
Behera conceded that he "misread" the pitch in the rain-affected final, but was excited to have Anustup Majumdar as the surprise package.
It was Majumdar, a top-order batsman, who emerged the unlikely bowling hero as he took four wickets for 29 runs to help East retain the Duleep Trophy from an unlikely position on Thursday.
"We brought him as a partnership breaker (in the 70th over). He really surprised us. Being a wrist spinner, the slow turner really helped him," Behera said.
"Once we had (Mahesh) Rawat, the wickets began tumbling. With the overcast conditions, we hoped it would assist seamers but it turned out to be a slow turner," Behera said about playing three seamers and one spinner.
In reply to East's modest 232, Central were bowled out for 189 to concede a 43-run lead and final match.
"They (Central) were playing for a win, whereas our strategy was to defend the total. That really worked for us," he said.
Majumdar said, "I haven't bowled much in first-class cricket... I bowled off-spin in one or two first-class matches, although I began as a leg-spinner and a lower-order batsman in junior cricket. After that things changed a bit.
"On this wicket we had gone with only one spinner and three seamers, so I tried bowling, and I managed it.
"Leg-spinners are generally more inconsistent and I hadn't been practising leg-spin. I bowled a good ball, got a wicket (that of Mahesh Rawat) and my confidence went up. Then I got more consistent. I was just enjoying my bowling."
Iresh, who clinched 5/58, played a big part in the win with his consistency.
"I knew Anustup bowled leg-spin because I'm also from Kolkata. I told Natraj to give him one of my overs, because I wanted to change ends. I wanted to change ends because I was not getting wickets, and I thought there was more purchase from the other end.
"After Anustup got the wicket, we really came together as a team and started enjoying it more."


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My biggest claim to fame on campus is probably my appearance as a contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in 2004. I was also a contestant on Jeopardy! as a graduate student, and I've written articles about the mathematics of both shows for Math Horizons. I am fascinated by history and love music from classical to jazz to rock. I am a life-long Cleveland fan who, understandably, will sometimes focus on soccer or hockey, sports with no Cleveland team to let me down. I have been fortunate to do much traveling. Two places particularly special to me are Japan, where my wife once taught English, and the Great Lakes region as a whole. I have lived in Michigan and Ontario and along Minnesota's Lake Superior shore, so I have seen the lakes from all sides and discovered many wonderful spots along the way.
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LONDON (AP) — The leader of the junior party in Britain's coalition government has criticized Prime Minister David Cameron's move to block European Union treaty changes, saying it was "bad for Britain" and he was bitterly disappointed by the outcome.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says he fears the U.K. — which he warns is "retreating further to the margins of Europe" — will be isolated and marginalized within the EU as a result.
Clegg initially had said he backed Cameron's decision, but he told the BBC on Sunday he had warned the prime minister by phone it was a bad move.
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The growth of the oil and gas industry in Western Pennsylvania, as well as expansion of the electrical field, prompted one local trade school to start an Industrial Maintenance Program.
Rosedale Technical Institute, a nonprofit school in Kennedy, got financial support for the project on Friday when the Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County board gave it a $200,000 grant.
The school will use the money to renovate classrooms and welding laboratory space in an 80,000-square-foot building and acquire equipment, according to Debbie Bier, Rosedale's director of admissions.
She said the program will train students to maintain and repair conveyor belts, and similar systems, at local plants. They also will learn welding, electrical and hydraulic work.
The program, which has received verbal approval from the state Department of Education, could initially enroll 15 to 20 students, Bier said.
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Nothing - absolutely nothing. So bad it was that we checked out in the morning and moved next door to the Liau Suites. There the rooms were airy, clean and the hotel staff excellent. We cannot, and will not, live in filth. The bed was the shape of a banana, the carpets smelt and were black. The entire place has reached it's "sell by" date. Best option is to close it down and do serious renovations. Only the foyer and pool area can remain.
the friendly staff although not speaking english far away from the city, the rooms were old and smelling, the bed not comfortable, internet not working probperly.


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One of the main themes in Goethe's Faust is the soul. Faust trades his soul to have all of his wishes granted by Mephisto.
The soul is the ultimate prize for both the Lord and Mephisto. Early in the story, during Prelude in Heaven, the Lord and Mephisto make a bet regarding Faust's soul. The Lord believes that Faust can be saved until his dying breath but worries that Faust has corrupted his soul with his fascination and practice with the black arts. Mephisto says it will be easy to sway Faust and turn him away from the Lord. If Mephisto is right, he will take possession of Faust's soul and take it to Hell, where Faust will serve as an eternal slave.
In the story it is possible to interchange "soul" with "spirit". The soul is the part of a person that continues to exist after death and the nature of the soul determines if the person's soul will ascend into Heaven to enjoy the Kingdom of the Lord or if it will be cast into Hell to bear the tortures rendered by Mephistopheles.
There is a question regarding salvation at hand. Is it possible for a soul to be corrupt and still make it into Heaven? The Lord says repentance before death can save a soul. Mephistopheles believes that a soul once corrupted will not repent and cannot be so easily cleansed.
Heaven and Hell
One of the main themes in Goethe's Faust is Heaven and Hell. Goethe paints a clear picture of the concept of each but touches only lightly on the creation of Hell after Mephisto is cast out of Heaven.
Heaven and Hell are the final resting places for souls that have left their human forms after death. Unlike many famous pieces of literature, the existence of Heaven and Hell is never questioned.
Heaven is painted as being the ultimate paradise. There is no suffering, pain or misery. This is the home of God the Creator, a place where the streets are paved with gold and angels sing while playing harps. It is the ideal concept of Utopia. Hell, on the other hand, is often depicted as being a fiery pit where tormented souls must relive their tortured lives throughout eternity while being forced to do Mephisto's will.
The Prelude in Heaven details the deal made between the Lord and Mephistopheles. At the time Heaven is the home of the Heavenly Host and all related entities including the Virgin Mary, Jesus, and the archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. At this point Mephistopheles is still one of the Lord's servants - he has not yet been cast out of Heaven. However, if Mephisto succeeds in capturing the souls then he will take them to a place where they will wallow in misery for eternity. This place will be Hell.
Faust has spent many years studying various intellectual pursuits from jurisprudence to science, medicine, philosophy and theology. Faust is also a master of the Black Arts. The Black Arts is a collective name for various types of magic that are not acceptable by the Holy Church or its tenets. It is thought to be wicked to perform any kind of magic from divination to spell casting, both of which are skills Faust possesses. Faust is also skilled at alchemy.
At the beginning of the story Faust is teaching the Black Arts at a university for boys. There are other subjects taught at the school as well but Faust is seen as being one of the most talented and revered professors at the school and in all of Germany if not the world.
Despite Faust's gift with magic there are many things that he cannot create or manifest. For example, Faust does have the power to summon Mephisto who is technically his master. However, Faust lacks the power to force Mephisto to stay or do his will. Faust does believe that he has godlike qualities and has more powers than Mephisto, something that is clearly not true.
In addition to Faust's use of magic, Goethe introduces a witch that will give Faust a necessary potion to make his desires become a reality.
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One of the main aims of the proposal was to move prostitution out of residential areas in to an area that could be closely monitored.
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If the zone is approved, it would also contain education and training facilities for prostitutes to use.
The consultation, carried out by John Moores University and public health experts, will evaluate how residents, businesses, community groups and prostitutes themselves.
Up to 1,000 people have already registered their views in the survey, which is being carried out online.


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McConnell's money making abilities TOTALLY focus on businesses outside of Kentucky due to his ability to influence legislation that affects them and his rank.
If McConnell wasn't Minority Leader he would be totally noneffective in today's government due to his POLITICAL focus instead of ability to be a STATESMAN.
NO VISION but can say NO really quickly or provide some other NEGATIVE comment; this being exactly a MITCH tactic.
PITIFUL!! PITIFUL!! But effective with today's uneducated voter.]]>


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Cocaine for the Mind
Of Stuff and Patterns
Patterns are what are recognized in the universe. No one would be able to imagine how to identify an object, "stuff", without recognizing the pattern associated with it. If one knows how a pencil looks like, and one sees another object that looks like a pencil after detecting similar attributes between the objects—a pattern—one might assume the second object is a pencil as well. Patterns are not merely checkerboards and quilts—patterns, in a sense, are everything. They make everything what it is. An, perhaps extreme, analogy would be that patterns are to the Higgs field as "stuff" is to fundamental particles; patterns are what give "stuff" its meaning, just as the Higgs field gives fundamental particles their mass. Patterns are axiomatic in the universe, even more especially when regarding human cognition, since it's all humans have between themselves and the "real" universe. The concepts of deduction, induction, association, reverse engineering—all come from pattern analysis. To the human brain, patterns are an intrinsic part of the universe, just as is 1+1=2, E=mc², and the speed of light in a vacuum being c (which, by the way, are all patterns in and of themselves).
Firstly, there are two extremely important concepts to understand. The first is that organisms are a product of their evolution, and as such, are limited by it. Just as humans cannot see ultraviolet light, as insects can, or hear higher frequencies of sound, as bats can, they have a greater capacity for noticing patterns than their less-capable animal cousins. The second is that, due to this limitation, human understanding of the universe is inherently crippled by it; there is an inherent bias in being a human.
There are also two fundamental terms to be dealt with: The first is "stuff"—the second is "pattern". "Stuff" is possibly the most generic term describing the existential that there is, which is good. The second word, "pattern", describes (for lack of a better term) everything. "Stuff" is what "patterns" can stick to. You don't know "stuff". You can't know "stuff". To observe "stuff" without a pattern would be looking at a shapeless mass—but even that is a terribly incorrect statement to make, since even a "shapeless mass", mentally—visually—has a shape. Truly shapeless mass is incomprehensible, just as as color you can't imagine is incomprehensible. However, you can know its pattern, and through it then come to know an object.
Regarding the basic idea of the premise, patterns are differences in something ("stuff") and being able to apply the differences as a particular rule, of a particular paradigm.
There is no such thing as mono information. The smallest amount of information must be binary—at least according to what our evolved brains think. Simply put, this is because, in order to be information, there must exist delineation between signals in order to create…a pattern. You cannot use a string of 1s as information. It would be, not just intelligible, but nonsense, for all parts of the string would be equal, therefore unable to describe anything except its own lack of description.
One could, however, separate them with a space, thus delineating and creating the possibility to transmit information.
11111111 11 111111 1111 1 11111
What one uses to delineate between signals is arbitrary. Instead of using spaces, one could use zeros. As well, the language used, or number of 1s and 0s used to comprise information, is as well arbitrary.
A line of 1s could be considered "stuff", while the 0s is the "pattern". In some sense, a string of 1s could contain the information to describe how to bake delicious cake, but without a delineating factor to separate signals it would be impossible to know it; it would be simply noise. Patterns are the adjectives, whilst "stuff" are the nouns—a red car without the red is not a red car. A car without the car is not a car.
Observing different organisms, one is able to better understand what pattern perception is. There does exist a gray area within this subject, unfortunately—for example, jellyfish are able to sense the world around them, yet they have no brain. Many plants, as well, can identify patterns: Where the sun's location is in the sky and being able to follow it as it paths across it. Where molecular and pattern identification via chemistry—without intellectual input—begins and where intellectual, cognitive pattern identification ends is a doctoral thesis in itself.
Humans have a famous obsession for attempting to find patterns where there are none. The face of Jesus on…something…is a classic example. In fact, one of the most common attempts of pattern recognition in noise (noise meaning lack of information) would be seeing human faces where there are none. A face on Mars. A face on a mountain. A face on a cloud—and this is where it ties with, and where the bias begins; the evolution of the human brain. The human brain has evolved especially to recognize human faces and, specifically (or especially) emotional displays it performs. As social creatures, it presented an evolutionary advantage in being able to better understand what one's fellow troop member was thinking. Humans didn't evolve to understand a dog's or tiger's facial characteristics, nor swim under the sea, nor fly in the air. Humans didn't evolve to do or understand many things, though the capacity is indeed there due to coincidental factors; we can swim in the sea unaided, and we can think intelligently enough to create flying machines. However, for all capacities that are there that formed coincidentally, there are orders of magnitude more capacities that humans, unfortunately, do not possess—ones easily noticed would be the lack of ability to see beyond visual light, or lack of ability to breathe underwater. But what if our brains were somehow able to be twice the size—or, if the idea of a grotesquely shaped head is unattractive and unappealing—what if our brains had twice the number of neural connections? What if there were no corpus callosum, but the brain was one, solid, contiguous unit? What if….
Julia and Mandelbrot Fractals
There is a wonder when dealing with fractals, and that is the wonder of unlimited pattern recognition. We have all zoomed in using Google Earth…and zoomed in, and zoomed in, and zoomed in, until we couldn't zoom in any more. The pleasure derived from recognizing the patterns that appeared, as they appeared, was a joy. And what if one could do that…forever? The idea of infinity is intriguing to many, for an assortment of reasons—though mainly innate human want. We want. And how we want it.
And fractals present this. They are a never-ending repetition of patterns. If there were any combination of two things that could be as tantalizing as sex and food, it's pattern recognition and infinity—and fractals fully embody that combination. By adding color to fractals, i.e. by assigning numbers a color, the aesthetic dimension of fractal art is exponentially raised with spectacular results.
Fractals are aesthetically pleasing due to the human mind's constant vigilance for finding patterns, whether it is in the most simple pattern of the golden spiral with its golden ratio, to the more intricate Mandelbrot set (named after Benoit Mandelbrot) and it's endlessly complex branches and beads. Human intelligence and ingenuity comes from pattern recognition, and, as being highly visual creatures, their eyesight, while famously not the "best" of the animal kingdom, is relied on far, far more than their other senses. Fractals are the ultimate manifestation of a visual pattern, for they are an infinitely repeating pattern. The universe being, or seemingly being, finite, due to human comprehension being finite, and the human propensity to search for and analyze patterns, creates the luring attraction towards fractals and their infinity—fractals seemingly to be the ultimate form of, and to some, with the exception of the human face, the most attractive forms of patterns—somehow existing in this finite universe, being comprehended by a finite mind.


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Two-part question:
I'm a semi-noob, but avid learning/researcher/student. I'd like to replicate a procedure posted by another kind user here using an old light diffuser grid as a press mold to make tiny mosaics. Her prototypes turned out beautiful. Since my intended use is wall tile, I understand it's best to use ^6 clay. This means I also need to glaze at compatible ^6 level as well, correct? So far so good. Ultimately I'd like to finish with a mother of pearl overglaze/lustre. Now it gets interesting...
I fell in love with a lustre effect I saw on a boutique tile. (Nothing easy is as much fun, right?) I found this tile in the store but they don't make tiny sizes and besides, it's crazy expensive (pic attached). The appearance is a creamy base color with a heavy rainbow iridescence and they call it their "metalics" line. In the pic below it almost looks mirror-like but not so much on a single tile. After everything I poured over on this site I am starting to suspect this possibly was fired four times -- third time for some kind of white gold or platinum metallic lustre and then a fourth time for a mother of pearl/opalescence (??) or maybe just MOP?
Your guess???
Second part -- I found Duncan Mother of Pearl Lustre Overglaze and would like to try it (or anything else equivalent that you can suggest). Many of you say the MOP can be applied over mid fire glazes, and fired for 3rd time at very low ranges (ie. ^018). With that in mind, it sounds like this can be applied over a ^6 glaze provided that it is fired at the mfgr recommended ^020. However, the Duncan website lists something I find somewhat confusing - specifically step #1 & #2.
Here are their instructions
1. Apply an overglaze compatible glaze to cone 04 bisque.
2. Fire to cone 06.
3. Do not stir or shake overglaze.
4. Place a small amount of overglaze on a glazed palette:
a. For a swirled look, swirl on one coat, overlapping strokes.
b. For a smooth look, brush on all strokes in the same
5. Correct application should produce a light blue tint.
First off, what is a "overgalze compatible glaze"? Secondly, are they saying I need to apply a glaze to the bisque with a glaze that only fires to ^06? That would mean I'd have to use a low fire ^06 clay (?) Surely they are not saying I should fire the lustre to ^06 -- everything I've read on this forum says that's too high and would burn off. Does this mean I cannot use Duncan Mother of Pearl over a ^6 clay fired with a ^6 glaze? If not - what then do you recommend for Mother of Pearl on cone ^6 glaze? Or can that even be done?
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Should I Budget more Time at the beginning?
Despite what you may have heard, do not spend a majority of time at the beginning of the test. Many people subscribe to this belief in hopes that they can game the system. The misconception is that the first few questions weighted more heavily then the subsequent question, with the last few questions having almost no impact on score. The algorithm, however, doesn't fall asleep once it's got you "figured" out. You can "bomb" the first part of the test, but as long as you do well on the rest of the test, your score should be no different from a student who misses the same amount, but misses most of them at the end.
Skipping a Question
First off, you must answer each question on GMAT before you are able to move on. By skipping a question, you are essentially randomly guessing because you have absolutely no idea.
As to how many questions you should skip, and how long you should spend on a question before skipping, there is no perfect answer. But if you have spent more than a minute on a question without being able to devise a solution path, then you may want to skip this question. However, if your first attempt did not yield you one of the answer choices, do not simply give up. Check your work. Figure out if there is another way to approach the problem. If at this point you are stuck and the clock is ticking inexorably to zero, then you may want to make an intelligent guess and move on.
How many questions should you skip?
Again, there is no perfect answer to this question. Factors to consider include your target score and your score on practice tests. For the latter point, know how many questions you've skipped on practice tests and how that affected your score. For instance, if you skipped two questions on a practice test and still scored close to 700, then you should be able to do the same on the real test (of course the practice test you use should not be a Manhattan GMAT or GMAC test "" the algorithms on other tests are less trustworthy.
Use Practice Tests to Work on Time Management
Beyond determining how many questions to skip, you can use practice tests to get a feel for how you should manage your time. Reading about time management and theorizing on the best approach is moot if you do not actually take practice tests to determine what works for you. For instance, you may find that you are making careless mistakes at the beginning of the test, and finishing with time to spare. You clearly need to slow down. Missing many questions toward the end because you are short on time will require you to speed up at the beginning.
Time management can play an important factor in your score. While there is no one magic mantra, keep the points above in mind as you fashion your own approach using practice tests.
This post was written by Chris Lele, GRE and GMAT Expert at Magoosh Test Prep. Magoosh offers hundreds of practice questions and video lessons, as well as free resources and tips on how to master the GMAT and GRE.
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Next Level: Preeminence
November 2, 2001, the Purdue Board of Trustees adopted a five-year
strategic plan to make Purdue a preeminent university with
strategies to advance quality in all areas, lead the world
in basic and applied sciences and engineering, and contribute
to societal progress, especially in Indiana. A strategic plan
defines an institution's goals and objectives and provides
the basis for systematic and continuous improvement.
plan will take not only Purdue, but also the state of Indiana,
to the next level of excellence," said Purdue President Martin
Jischke. "This is more than just an academic exercise. Purdue
is employing good management practices, defining its mission
and setting measurable objectives. This is critical: Opportunity
is limitless but resources are finite. Purdue cannot be all
things to all people, and it must know its mission so it can
use resources wisely."
plan for the West Lafayette Campus calls for $156 million
annually in new resources that will support discovery, learning,
and engagement, leading to a wide range of advancements in
undergraduate learning, interdisciplinary research, and economic
development for Indiana. Additional funding information is
available by selecting the funding link on this page.
of the plan for the West Lafayette Campus include investments
that will:
is my hope that in five years, as a result of strategic planning,
Purdue and all of its campuses will be better institutions
in terms of mission, reputation, and impact more strategically
focused, more engaged with Indiana and beyond, more diverse,
more accountable, and better funded," Jischke said.
Jischke launched Purdue's planning process in early March
2001 and strategic planning task forces were established on
the West Lafayette, Calumet,
Wayne, Indianapolis,
and North Central
campuses. (To learn more about the strategic plans of other
Purdue campuses, select the campus name above.) The
task forces, made up of faculty, staff, students, and alumni
on each campus, met weekly for four months to prepare drafts
of the plans. The strategic
plan timeline provides an overview of task force work.
now begins the implementation of this strategic plan. Each
school, department, and other academic as well as nonacademic
unit will develop respective strategic plans during the 2001-02
academic year. A complete copy of the proposed West Lafayette
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|How I became a Pirate
|At the age of thirteen I built a wooden boat in the back yard and ran away from home, that was my first Shipwreck.
|I then managed to run away again and got into the Vindicatrix sea school at Sharpness, I was refused for being half an inch too small but after knocking at their door and standing at the gates they got bored and let me in.. After passing through the Vindicatrix I signed on as a Deck Boy or 'Peggy' onboard the Blue star line's pride of the fleet, the 'English Star' bound for Australia and NZ.
Around the World! My life of Dreams had begun. pened that changed my life.
|The English Star passing Capetown.
|The English Star. Royal Docks London, one month before I signed on.
|I was 15 years old, what happened to me on that first voyage could fill a book and one thing happened that changed my life.
|It was a foggy October day when the English Star sailed down the Thames, She stopped on route in the Canaries, Capetown, East London, Port Elizabeth and then Durban, it was in Durban that for the first time I disembarked the ship.
My first step on a foreign land, black people were everywhere, at home I had never seen a black man. I had never drunk beer either, the crew took me to a bar and made me drink a beer, I got sick, I got drunk, I got lost running back to the ship. I ran through a 'blacks only' area, I asked, 'where is my ship?', the black people either shouted at me to go or ran away from me, I didn't understand.
The police came, I was picked up, I was thrown in a cell of cockroachs for three days then put before the magistrates.
'Aparthied?' what does that mean?' I asked as the 5 policemen took me away behind the court where I was stripped and they gave me my punishment. It was six strokes of the Cat. (I have never understood why they always give six strokes because after the first three you feel nothing anymore.) The last stroke is the memory creator and the moment can be recalled as a strange 'life moment' with a combination of Screams, laughter, Blood, Pain, Police, Doctor, Iodine, more laughter and more pain. And all the time the same thought, 'how did I work this?'
|This is one of the signs I didn't see.
In the meantime, my ship had sailed, it was now in Mozambique.
Without a wash and filthy from 4 days in the same clothes I was taken to Durban airport, always hunched and couldn't sit down. I was there Blacklisted from ever returning to South Africa and put on a DC6, I had only seen airplanes in films! (oh the pain, oh the plane,.)
When I finally got back to my ship the Captain tore into me and fined me my entire salary for the rest of the voyage which was going to be another nine months.
It would take too long to write here or try to explain the incredible story of my Marine life from that moment on, I was living my dream but it was all going somehow wrong, this wasn't how my dream was meant to be. I wanted my dream so very much so I continued to live the dream. To live a dream, 'come what may', can project a person through life at a rate of knots that is sometimes faster than one can imagine or sometimes fully understand.
A dream creates the will to learn, the need to know can be the finest of teachers. I was soon a fine Seaman, so good infact that I became known and eventually requested. In this respect I was asked to join a small Swedish Tramp working the Baltic and North Sea ports. When living a dream one tends to concentrate solely on the dream, so it took me quite some time to realise I was in fact onboard a Pirate ship. I was taken on initially as Quartermaster due to my Gotha Canal Pilot experience and my storm ability.
One night the Captain was alone with me on the bridge, he came to me smiling, put his arm around me and said, "You are the one, I choose you, I have waited for you." I had no idea what he was on about until he added, "I will teach you all you need to know!" Wow ! I thought, now that's cool.
He sent me to the Academy and for the next three years or so he did teach me what I needed to know. He also explained to me who I was, who we Peiran are , our History and what we must do.
| I became a Peiran, a Pirate. A small, very insignificant Pirate but a Pirate.
It cannot be put into words or books, no Marine Academy or University could come close to the teachings I received and the capabilities I learned and mastered.
How to speak and to listen to the Sea, to know her, to know what is beneath her, how she feels, how she is going to move, to become one with her and to have love and empathy and allow her to enter you and keep you safe no matter what.
To know the presence of sea Creatures and comunicate and to know where you are without instruments and so many wonderous aptitudes that are far apart from what is considered 'normal' Pirate activities.
I've 'undertaken' missions on behalf of; Royalty, Shieks and Politicians.
I've 'assisted' in missions involving; President of the Philippines, Philippine Congress, MLF (Muslim Liberation Front), New Peoples Army Communist Rebels, Muammar Al-Ghaddafi, Goverment of Nigeria, the family of Prime Minister of Vietnam, CIA and various unmentionable orgs and gangsters.
Missions varied from Investigation, logistics and capturing ships (2) and most things inbetween.
|With President Joseph Estrada of the Philippines.
|There are good doctors and bad one and good and bad cops and just about everything.
There are then good and bad Pirates, unfortunately only the bad are seen.
I am a Peiran Pirate
The Peiran is an Association founded by the Great Sage Solon some 2,500 years ago.
I was taught of the 'Secrets of Solon' and given the Peiran search results that cover hundreds of years.
This part of my learning years ago was of less interest to me than improving my knowledge of the sea. I was told that it would take my lifetime to fully understand what it was I was then being taught, now those words ring true and during the last few years these teachings have become clear to me.
It is these teachings that I would like to relate to in this site. Enjoy.
|My latest book, 'The 13th Day'
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UK Bankruptcy Law
UK Bankruptcy Law Questions Answered by Verified Experts
What other arrears have you had over the period?
What size is the mortgage?
Why is this a concessionary arrangements?
Has the interest only period come to an end and you are nowrolling over?
We need the full background history please
I shall reply to your request tomorrow,as I am out of home today, sorry. i believe that we may have had approx 2k arrears on the original bank loan since 2009, but I believe all they want clarified now is how much we can afford to pay, HOW we will pay it reasonably, & being able to satisfy their request for a shorter repayment time. I believe they may accept the original £400 pm, unsure for how long at the mo. I understand there is Interest applied & it is now not being considered as a loan, as I originally explained. Ithas been passed to Debt Recoveries. LTSB say it is a concessionary arrangement. Why, I do not know!! PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY THEY NOW THINK THEY MAY BE ABLE TO DEMAND THE SALE OF OUR PROPERTY, ESAPECIALLY WHEN WE ARE MAKING OUR MORTGAGE REPAYMENTS SATISFACTORILY & LTSB ARE 2ND IN LINE FOR ANY MONIES.
Mortgage is £202,000 which of course we shall now no longer be able to repay, so we are well aware that we are residing at our property until "pay day" is due, when we shall sell & repay lender & should be able to pay residue of debt to bank (as long as Interest Rates do not rise with any large amount in the forseeable future)
I believe there are now many people in this sort of situation.
Thankyou in anticipation of some advice !
The problem that you face is that once you are in arrears you are in breachof your mortgage conditions and the whole loan becomes immediately repayable.
If they pass it to solicitors, legal costs will start to accrue eventhough, with only £2000 of arrears, there is little chance that they would getrepossession. Nonetheless, the legal costs will be substantial
If you want to keep this out of court you need to pay the arrearscompletely up-to-date and make sure that all future payments are paid on time.
If you do that, and they still blindly take you to court you can defend iton the basis that they have no grounds to repossess the property and you canask the court to order that the lender gets no legal costs and is not allowedto add any legal costs on to your bill/mortgage account.
I am a bit concerned as to why you say that LTSB are second in line for anymoney because they should be first in line and should have a first charge. Dothey not have a first charge?
Can I help further?
Please bear with me today because I am online and off-line. Please don'tforget to positively rate my answer service (even if it was not what you wantto hear). If you don't rate it positively, then the site keep your deposit andI get 0 for my time. It is imperative that you give my answer a positiverating. It doesn't give me "a pat on the head", "good boy" (like ebay), it ismy livelihood!If in ratings you feel that you expected more or it only helped a little,please ask.
You seem to have completely misread our info. We have a mortgage with another company - payments are up to date & all ok, as I told you.
LTSB was a secured business loan, against the house, therefore 2nd charge, not 1st
if you cannot understand what I have said, just say so!
We are NOT in arrears with mortgage
You said "only in arrears to TSB to the sum of £340 (one payment) ? "
Then you said
I cannot answer with inaccurate facts.
Opting out for another expert
At least you have given me an answer that seems to be based on the facts I have presented. many thanks for this, I shall check back with you later if that is ok. I have , in the meantime, been able to secure myself a management opp. with Tesco, that should make our bargaining opp more sound.
My main ? as you have understood, is that I needed to know if the Bank (2nd charge) could actually force us to sell so they might get monies, even though the mortgage with another company is fine & up to date.
Speak later
Many thanks for clarifying that the bank can, in fact, force us to sell (although they probably will not get their money, as you say)
We shall now proceed again with discussions concerning increased payments.


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Mobile operators have warned that customers shouldn't expect to easily buy an iPhone 5s when it goes on sale this weekend – but there will be plenty of the cheaper multi-hued 5c model lying around for the casual Apple fan.
While sell-outs are expected of Apple's latest premium iPhone 5s in many phone stores this weekend in the UK, the colourful, lower cost device will be well-stocked, according to several operator sources close to the retail end of the business. Read more