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--$256,000,000 class A notes 'AAAsf'; Outlook Stable;
--$7,000,000 class B notes 'AAsf'; Outlook Stable.
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--$256,400,000 class A notes 'AAAsf'; Outlook Stable;
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High Collateral Quality: Each trust's collateral consists of 100% Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) consolidation loans, approximately 15% of which are rehabilitated loans. The credit quality of the trusts' collateral is high as the trust student loans are guaranteed for at least 97% principal and accrued interest by the U.S. Department of Education (ED). Fitch currently rates the U.S. at 'AAA'/Stable Outlook.
Sufficient Credit Enhancement: The cash flow results for the class A and B notes in each trust were satisfactory under Fitch 'AAAsf' and 'AAsf' stresses, respectively. Total credit enhancement (CE) for each trust is provided by initial overcollateralization (OC) of approximately 2.3% of trust collateral balance, excess spread and, in the case of the class A notes, approximately 2.7% of subordination provided by the class B notes. A target OC amount equal to the greater of 4.50% of the adjusted pool balance and $2.75 million must be met before excess cash can be released.
Adequate Liquidity Support: Liquidity support is provided by a reserve account sized at 2.25% of initial student loan balance and funded at closing. The required reserve account balance for any distribution dates prior to Aug. 25, 2019 (the step-down date) is 2.25% of the current student loan balance; on and after the step-down date, the balance is the greater of 0.25% of the current student loan balance and 0.10% of the initial student loan balance.
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--'Global Structured Finance Rating Criteria' (May 20, 2014);
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What Passes for Life: LeBron James, Tom Izzo, UFC and more
By Juan Cena in SWRT on July 9, 2010LeBron James will wear number 6 with the Miami Heat. So does this make Miami "The Village?" (Ball Don't Lie) The big winner in the LeBron sweepstakes is...Tom Izzo? By turning the Cleveland Cavaliers down, The Izzo may be the only person involved in this whole debacle that comes out smelling like a rose. (The Dagger) Double your Nogueira, double your fun. Twin brothers Antonio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira will both fight on UFC 119 against Frank Mir and Ryan Bader respectively. (Cagewriter) X-Men: First Class cast. Includes James McAvoy playing Professor X, Michael Fassbender as Magneto, and Alice Eve as Emma Frost. How faithful to the earlier X-Men films, or the early Stan Lee and Jack Kirby issues of "The Strangest Super-Heroes of All!"(Ain't It Cool News) Cliff Lee to the Yankees Rangers. Lee reportedly winds up in Texas when deal with the Yanks breaks down. (ESPN)
Death to the vuvuzela!
By Juan Cena in SWRT on July 9, 2010What do Salman Rushdie and vuvuzelas have in common? They've both had fatwas declared on them. "A fatwa by the (United Arab Emirates') General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowments declares that the now-famous blast from the plastic vuvuzela is not permitted in the Gulf country if it exceeds 100 decibels — about the sound of a passing train. It says the typical vuvuzela blast is up to 127 decibels." Okay a fatwa declared by the UAE doesn't have the cache that a fatwah declared by the Ayatollah Khomeini does, but it sure is funny, at least in this case. And the vuvuzela deserves a fatwa more than Rushdie ever did for writing The Satanic Verses. (via AP, Gawker)
Covering Dixie Like Mildew: Tennesse Vol Bar Brawl, Georgia, Jägermeister, and...Elvis
By Juan Cena in SWRT on July 9, 2010(Covering Dixie Like Mildew is the SWRT roundup of SEC and ACC news) The Tennessee Vol Brawl. The latest on the bar fight allegedly involving Da'Rick Rogers and 7-10 other members of the Volunteers' football team at a Knoxville bar that left an off-duty police officer in the hospital. (Go Vols Xtra) Ole Miss defense compared to Jägermeister. (Insert drinking school with a football problem joke here) (Red Cup Rebellion) Would you trust this man to pick your daughter's husband? Or more importantly, your school's athletic director? Dawg Sports asks if UGA president Dr. Evil Michael Adams can be trusted to find the right person to find Damon Evans Replacement. (Dawg Sports) Schadeathfreude Valley. Clemson's "The Worst of the 2000's" list of worst Tiger beatings hits #7 and the 2004 loss to Georgia Tech. Losing to a Chan Gailey coached GT team always means you suck. (Shakin the Southland) Spot the Nut(t) It's kind of hard to tell, isn't it? (Dr. Saturday)
Yanks' interest in Cliff Lee brings forth tired "Evil Empire" schitck
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Your Freudian Nightmare of the night. The Beach Boys posessed by an army of demons.
By Juan Cena in SWRT on July 8, 2010(Actually the music is by Ten Masked Men)
Obi Wan Kenobi reacts to LeBron's defection to Miami
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By Juan Cena in SWRT on July 8, 2010Mark Bradley of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution says he's found "The ideal candidate to be Georgia's AD." "There's this guy, OK?" he says. "He has been an athletics director at a BCS school for four years, OK? And he's really good at his job, OK? And his football team just won its conference title and played in a BCS game, OK? And he has an SEC background, OK?" Sounds great who is it? Dan Radakovich, AD for Georgia Tech. Non-starter of the decade. Even if some Georgia fans would jump at trying to get Radakovich to defect to the Bulldog Nation, it isn't going to happen. This is what passes for sports journalism in Atlanta now. This is why circulation for the AJC has gone down the tubes. Things have gotten so bad the paper is ditching their offices for an abandoned Macy's distribution center for crying out loud. What a disgrace.
Covering Dixie Like Mildew: Tennessee turning down USC in 2011, Richt on Damon Evans, and more
By Juan Cena in SWRT on July 8, 2010(Covering Dixie Like Mildew is the SWRT roundup of SEC and ACC news) UT's Mike Hamilton on turning down playing 2011 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. A radio interview with Vols' AD Mile Hamilton on why UT declined the offer to play USC and Lane Kiffin next year. (104.5 The Zone, via Rocky Top Talk) So is Tennessee being smart or chicken in turning the game down? Yes. Clay Travis makes a lot of good points in Tennessee's favor, though. Like the money the Vols would lose exchanging a home game for a trip to Atlanta. (Fanhouse) It's official. The ACC/ESPN deal is done. (The ACC.com) Georgia Tech's "5 "Best Losses" of the 2000's." Gotta hand it to the Bees trying to look on the bright side of things. (From the Rumble Seat) Mark Richt on Damon Evans debacle. Richt finally speaks out about Damon Evans. "Actually, we exchanged voice mails. It seemed like everytime I called him he wasn't able to pick up and vice versa. Nothing that I would want to divulge. Nothing earth shattering but just talking about the situation as best you can through a series of a couple of messages we left for each other." (OnlineAthens.com, via Team Speed Kills) Still crowing about the CWS. A look back at the Gamecocks' CWS championship season. It'll be the only thing the Chickens will have to crow about for a while. (Garnet and Black Attack)
Name Barbara Dooley President of the University of Tennessee?
By Juan Cena in SWRT on July 8, 2010How popular is Barbara Dooley, mother of Derek Dooley in Tennessee? Well Scott McNutt, a humorist for the Knoxville-News Sentinel suggested the mother of His Hairness be named President of the University of Tennessee. The basis of his piece is that Barbara's popularity would put a sugary coating on the massive budgetary issues plaguing the school at the moment. How bad is it for UT? Things are so bad they're raising tuition, slashing budgets and trying to sell the president's mansion, for crying out loud. (They can't find anyone to take it off the school's hands, either.) "So why appoint Barbara Dooley president?" Cheek said. "We eliminate the cost of a search. Her flamboyance will distract people from the tuition increase and budget cuts. Her son being coach, she has a vested interest in seeing this fine institution prosper, so she'll be willing to purchase the president's mansion and settle in long-term. Plus, she appreciates our traditions. We know, because she already has an orange boa."Another reason to name Barbara Dooley UT President? She taught His Hairness his personal grooming skills, of course. "I read a while back coach Dooley saying his hair was perfect because he'd spent his life training it and how he used that as a metaphor for building a solid ball program," Cheek explained. "Then I read how he couldn't train his mother to interact with the media. The juxtaposition of the controlled coiffure and the uncontrolled matriarch inspired me. I thought, 'Why not make her the one that's in control - the one grooming the hair, so to speak?'" Coach Dooley's hairstyle was unavailable for comment."Despite all the humor. It does underscore the kinds of financial trouble the University of Tennessee is in at the moment. The kind of trouble that probably keeps it from being able to accept Lane Kiffin's challenge to face USC in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game in 2011 if they want to. UT just can't afford to do it. Or at least not to the point of justifying buying out North Texas, Middle Tennessee, Cincinnati, or North Carolina. The money really isn't there. Besides, if Barbara Dooley was that good, Dr. Evil Michael Adams would be naming her UGA Athletic Director. Anything to keep her from showing up to the Georgia-Tennessee game in her orange feather boa, reminding everybody how he fired Vince Dooley. (via Knoxville News Sentinel)
LeBron James: The Decision, the Soundtrack
By Juan Cena in SWRT on July 8, 2010It's too bad LeBron James didn't give ESPN enough time to put together LeBron James: The Decision so it could have the proper media tie-ins it deserved. Like any overhyped media event, LeBron James: The Decision, deserves it's own tie-ins. Such as LeBron James: The Decision, the video game, or LeBron James: The Decision app for your iPad. Then of course there's LeBron James: The Decision the official soundtrack. Which probably sound a little something like this: "Dancing With Myself," Billy Idol "Should I Stay or Should I Go," The Clash "Made You Look," Nas "New York, New York," Frank Sinatra "Dilemma," Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland "Miami " Will Smith "Money," The Beatles "My Prerogative," Bobby Brown "Where Are You Going," Dave Matthews Band "Back Stabbers," The O'Jays "Cleveland Rocks," Ian Hunter
NASA tests World Cup soccer ball. Your tax dollars at work.
By Juan Cena in SWRT on July 7, 2010NASA can't seem to find the money to keep the Space Shuttle flying, or go to back to the Moon. But for some reason it can find money to test the maligned World Cup soccer ball. And the government wonders why there's a tea party movement. (via Dirty Tackle)
What Passes for Life: World Cup, Rob Lowe, and more
By Juan Cena in SWRT on July 7, 2010Spain and Netherlands in World Cup Finals. Game will be replay of the Eighty Years' War (1566-1648). (Yahoo! Sports) Rob Lowe buying Miramax? Well, it isn't like he's never directed a movie of anything like that. (The AV Room) Your "Name of the Year" candidate of the day. God's Gift Achiuwa, Erie Community College forward from Nigeria. (The Dagger) Most Annoying Coaches. Round up the usual suspects. (Eleven Warriors) "Wait, did I say that?" Yes, Josh Barnett, you did. (Cagewriter)
LeBronageddon: Jared Dudley scoops ESPN
By Juan Cena in SWRT on July 7, 2010The Phoenix Suns' Jared Dudley has dropped this little gem of a news item on Twitter: Breaking News!!! My sources tell me Lebron will announce that he will be goin to the NY KNICKS tomorrow on ESPN.. This is serious.. WOW!!!! The voices in your head don't count as reliable sources, Jared. (via Deadspin)
Tennessee turns down chance for 2011 showdown with Kiffin and USC. Huh?
By Juan Cena in SWRT on July 7, 2010(Cue the Carolina Liar) You would think that Tennessee would jump at any chance to go after Lane Kiffin so they could "rip out his heart and rip that sucker flat" (to paraphrase Lewis Grizzard who would be watching it down from Heaven with Catfish and UGAs I-VII with a huge grin on his face). But nope. Tennessee has turned down an offer by Kiffin to face USC in the 2011 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. The Vols are claiming scheduling conflicts for declining the offer. A look at the Vols' 2011 schedule doesn't show any real scheduling conflicts, but is is full at the moment. It might be a little more than a cakewalk for Derek Dooley's team, though. In addition to the SEC East, the Vols face Alabama, LSU, and Arkansas, which are pretty much the "Big Three" in the SEC West at the moment. (Shut up, Auburn.) Plus, the out of conference schedule features a visit from Cincinnati and a trip to North Carolina. Both of which could easily into the "trap game" column. It isn't the toughest schedule, but it could be a challenge for a rebuilding program. Besides, Tennessee is already scheduled for the 2012 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game against NC State. That's three trips to Georgia in two years, SEC Championship Games not included (yeah, right). Even with Georgia being Dooley's home state, His Hairness might not want to travel down that close to Athens that much. (It's awkward enough for Vince and Barbara as it is). There are a lot of open slots for a USC-Tennessee game in 2012 from the looks of things, but one would suspect Kiffen wants a neutral field so he doesn't have to travel back to Knoxville. And if Tennessee agreed to face the Trojans, that might not be an option for him. (via ESPN Los Angeles)
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Justin Bieber's mother, Pattie Mallette, is releasing her autobiography this fall. The memoir is to be called Nowhere But Up: The Story of Justin Bieber's Mom, will reveal what life was like for Patti as a single mother as well as reveal some Bieber family secrets. In her book Pattie is pretty open discussing how she tried to commit suicide at the age of 17. She says her mega popular son with both saved and changed her life.
Justin seem to support the project, and has even written the book's foreward. Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group, is releasing the tome on September 18. Revell's editorial director, Jennifer Leep, says of the book:
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The concept of business model is a useful tool with many facets used to analyse and communicate the essence of a business. It is believed that a business might succeed or fail depending on its business model (Tikkanen, Lamberg, Parvinen, & Kallunki, 2005). In addition the idea of the importance in concept determines the business model elements and its architecture where it was born out of the need to understand and explain the new ways of doing business. If the business model is termed to have long-term utility, there must be consensus on what a business model actually is and how it should be represented.
In this essay, we will look at the business model of the Singapore Bus Services (SBS Transit) and interrogate its business model to understand how the company make money through the interaction between its service market and capital market. The BCG matrix will be used to analyse and evaluate the services provided by SBS transit and how it can further improve to maximum its profit. The internal structure of the company will be touch on to allow us to understand how the company works to meet commuter's expectations.
Background of SBS
SBS Transit is a leading bus and rail operator in Singapore, with a daily average of more than three million passengers on the extensive bus and rail network. They believe in providing a better travelling experience to its customer and invested extensively in technology and training, constantly upgrading its operations and people (SBS Transit). SBS were formed in 1973 through the merger of three private bus companies; they grew quickly and were listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange as Singapore Bus Service by 1978. The Company was renamed as DelGro Corporation Limited with a subsidiary, Singapore Bus Services Limited where they were listed separately on the SGX in November 1997. In November 2001, Singapore Bus Services Limited had changed its name to SBS Transit Ltd to reflect the new bi-modal status as a bus and rail operator when they won the licence to operate the North East MRT Line. SBS Transit became a part of the ComfortDelGro Group when Comfort Group and DelGro Corp merged to form ComfortDelGro Corporation in 2003, one of the world's largest land transport companies. As part of an international, multi-modal transport company, they have been able to leverage on the Group's extensive resources, expertise and knowledge to bring about higher levels of service and comfort for the Singapore commuters.
SBS Transit aims to provide a world-class public transport which is safe, comfortable, affordable, reliable and friendly to all Singapore commuters. Today, they operate about 250 bus services with a fleet of more than 3,200 buses. The buses serve 17 interchanges and more than 3,500 bus stops island-wide. The North East MRT Line which is the world's first fully automated, underground heavy rail system that connects Punggol to HarbourFront, as well as the Light Rail System in the Punggol and Sengkang new towns. SBS Transit also operates the Downtown Line. When fully completed, this 42km line with 34 stations will be the longest underground line in Singapore. The first stage of the Downtown Line commenced passenger service on 22 December 2013. The second and third stages will be ready in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
Service Market
Necessities such as food, clothing, and shelter are categories that falls under the "bought" services. These necessities have expanded over time which includes internet, cell phone, transportation and computers. Bought items have to become part of how we live in our daily lives (Fannin). With a small country like Singapore, the public transport was intended to serve Singaporeans who do not own private cars and affordability was a key factor to the commuters (Bin & Ching, 2013).
The three main services that SBS Transit provides are namely the bus service, the rail service and the outdoor advertising and rental service. The bus service is Singapore's largest scheduled bus service operator with 75% of the market share. In order to cater to different commuter needs, 255 bus services were operate that comprises of 201 basic services, 31 premium services and 23 niche bus services. For the year of 2013, the fleet of buses operated about 31,000 trips and ferried a total of 973.5 million passengers on a daily average. Operating hours for selected bus services were extended during festive season such as Christmas and New Year. For events like the F1 Grand Prix night races, four special late night routes were put into service to complement the extended train hours.
The demand for rail services remains strong in 2013 with more than 204.8 million passenger trips made with an increase in daily ridership on the North East Line (NEL) grew by 6.1. The first phase of Downtown Line which opened for service on 22 December 2013 had a ridership record of about 670,000 passenger trips in its first 10 days of service. The increase in passenger demands were about 2,500 additional weekly trips added to the schedules of the LRT systems. Train operating hours were also extended during major events and public holidays. The innovative use of advertising and rental space has become an additional source of supplemental income. Advertising is undertaken by the sister company, Moove Media Pte Ltd where they faced a challenging year in 2013 as advertisers scaled back on their budgets due to the slowing economy.
BCG matrix
The BCG matrix by the Boston Consulting Group allows us to classify and evaluate the services provided by SBS. This decision making tool balance the activities of a company among those which make profits, those that ensure growth, those which constitute the future of the firm or those who are its heritage (Jurevicius , 2013). With this tool, development policies of the company are able to be identified.
The bus services would be classify under the cash cows where it has a high market share among the three services provided by SBS with a slow growing industry. Little investment is required for the bus service as it has established its reputation to cater to the different groups of consumers. Hence, extra cash generated can be used to invest in other business units.
As for the rail services, it would be classified under the stars with high market share in a fast growing industry. With increasing passenger demand weekly, rail service has to do something to keep up with its demand such as having more frequent train services. The rail services may generate cash but because it is a growing market, more investment is required to maintain their lead by coming up with new stations to meet the demand of the commuters.
Lastly, the outdoor advertising and rental services would be classified under the dog with low market share in a mature industry. SBS Transit had made a loss in 2013 due to the slowing economy. This service generates low or negative cash returns which might seems as it is not worth investing. However, campaign and charities events are always put up to reach out to people. This might be profitable in the long run when companies and individual being to be aware of such service.
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Capital Market
The revenue of SBS Transit had shown a constant increase of revenue over the past 5 years and in 2013, there is an increase of 6.9% from $792.3 million to $847.3 million. Revenue from bus operations grew by 7.3% which is fuelled by ridership growth of 3.1% despite of lower average fares charged. Revenue from rail operations increased by 6.9% which is attributable to the ridership growth of 5.8% on the NEL and 11.2% on the Sengkang/Punggol LRT systems as well as the commencement of passenger service on the Downtown line. Revenue from the advertisement business fell by 5.3% due to a drop in bus advertising sales while on the other hand, revenue from the rental business increase 22.1%. The increase in revenue of $55.0 million at the Group level was less than the increase in operating expenses of $64.9 million mainly due to higher wage costs, higher repairs and maintenance costs, higher depreciation and higher premises costs.
As a result, operating profit fell by 38.9% to $15.5 million. Finance costs due to increased borrowings to fund the purchase of new buses also increased by 51.5% or $1.5 million to $4.3 million.
For the first time since 2007, the rail business incurred an operating loss of $5.8 million due mainly to higher staff costs largely from the preparation for the start-up of the DTL 1 and higher repairs and maintenance costs, offset by higher rail fare revenue and lower electricity cost. If not for the DTL 1 start-up costs, the operating profit for the rail business would have increased by 22.4% or $2.5 million to $13.6 million.
Earnings per share were 3.62 cents which is 39.8% lower than the previous year, while net asset value per share increased by 0.9% to 112 cents. At 31 December 2013, the total equity for the Group increased by 0.7% to $344.3 million due to profits generated mainly from non-bus and train operations, which were partially offset by the payment of dividends.
Internal architectural
The commuting public expected good quality in public transport services and operators at the same time had to keep their profits healthy. Regulating the transport fares was crucial and important in balancing between affordability, profitability and quality. With government involvements and subsidies being the key instruments to maintain the right balance, SBS Transit is able to meet commuter's expectation. Since 1987, the three-way tensions of ensuring profitability and acceptable quality had been the task of the Public Transport Council (PTC), which regulates the transport fares for both buses and rails.
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Safety and security are key elements of the bus and train operations, with this importance SBS Transit places strongly in their policies, procedures, training and community engagement programmes. The Driving Skills Enhancement Programme (DSEP) was developed to focus on our Bus Captains' safety driving skills, it uses motion sensors, cameras and mapping software to measure and analyse driving habits where Bus Captains will be given an objective report of their driving performance. The programme was reviewed and customised for two distinct groups of bus captains; one with less than six months of service, and the other for those with more than six months of bus driving experience. The first group focuses more on providing training on core safety skills with common driving faults highlighted while the more experienced group focused more on defensive driving. To complement the training in safety driving, safety messages were put up on electronic displays at the exits of interchanges to remind bus captains of the need to be safe as they head out on their routes. Safety checks conducted by safety officers have also been stepped up at junctions and pedestrian crossings to ensure SBS Transit bus captain put into practice the skills learnt in training.
Continuous investment was place on training and developing its people. To ensure new bus captains are able to operate all three types of bus models in SBS's fleet. Besides technical skills, bus captains also attended the Continual Operations Training to refresh their knowledge and skills in handling on board customer issues and incidents such as disputes, breakdowns, and fire safety. In 2013, more than 1,692 bus captains attended this course with a total of 1,072 new bus captains successfully certified under the Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ) programme in bus operations while other 1,359 existing bus captains were certified under the "Recognition of Prior Learning Scheme". This means that all existing BCs have achieved this certification which is designed to professionalise and raise competency standards of public transport workers. In customer service training, the CARES programme runs on two parallel tracks, with CARES 1 anchored in eight service standards to deliver quality service to commuters and CARES 2 which focuses on customers with special needs and service enhancement techniques.
The staff commitment to excellence has been recognised in the awards received. For the year of 2013, a total of 1,205 staff received the national Excellent Service Awards (EXSA) while another 120 staff received the Transport Gold Award for service delivery. Five bus captains were also spotted demonstrating courtesy on the road by the Traffic Police and awarded the "Courteous Motorist Award 2013". Another 369 staff received internal recognition during the Annual CARES Award Ceremony for consistently delighting the commuters.
Corporate Social Responsibility
SBS have reach out to the community by funding numerous charitable projects and offering free transport services to the elderly residents of Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital. Cash donations were also contributed to several community outreach programmes. Free usage of space at the bus and rail stations as well as advertisement space on the buses and trains were offered to support charities and community efforts. On an individual level, SBS's staff are encourage to actively participated in the Community Chest's SHARE programme where a fixed amount of contributions is deducted from their monthly salaries and contributed to the charity on a monthly basis. In order to protect the environment, older buses were replaced with environmentally friendly ones. In 2013, a total number of 2,269 environmentally friendly buses which include Euro 4, Euro 5/Euro 5EEV and Compressed Natural Gas models were own by SBS to ensure that they play their role in being environmental responsible.
In conclusion, it is clearly stated that SBS transit is a bought service that is necessary for most citizens to consume. The BCG Matrix allow us to evaluate and understand the categories that each individual services falls in and make better future decision to bring profitability in long term. Understanding the capital market of the business also give us exact financial figure to know exactly how well the business is doing and it future sustainability. Lastly, the internal structure is the most important factor to be considered in a business as it forms the skeleton of the business such as how it operated and how it trains it staff to provide quality service delivery. Without the internal structure, the business might loss it direction to achieve its business goal.


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Administration officials pleaded with Congress today to restore welfare benefits for legal immigrants who have not become citizens. But President Clinton came under blistering criticism from liberal Democrats, who said he should never have signed the bill that ended such benefits.
''The President sold out children to get re-elected,'' said Representative Pete Stark, Democrat of California. ''He's no better than the Republicans.''
At a hearing of a House Ways and Means subcommittee, Mr. Stark said Mr. Clinton should not expect much support for his proposals to soften the effects of the new law.
The liberals' scorn for the Administration, combined with the reluctance of Republicans to increase Federal spending for noncitizens, suggests that Congress may reject many of Mr. Clinton's proposals. But it is possible that sentiment on Capitol Hill may change if there is a public outcry when elderly and disabled immigrants actually lose benefits in a few months under the new restrictions on the Supplemental Security Income program.
''One of our greatest fears is that the United States will have a rash of suicides among the very old and disabled immigrants who are left without any source of income or medical care,'' said Sharon M. Daly of Catholic Charities.
Diana L. Aviv, director of the Washington office of the Council of Jewish Federations, said, ''We have reports from all parts of the country informing us that elderly parents are considering suicide rather than impoverishing their children and grandchildren with expenses that their families cannot possibly pay.''
Representative Robert T. Matsui, Democrat of California, said that Administration officials were dreaming if they expected Congress to restore benefits for immigrants. ''It's going to be really hard for people to vote for noncitizen benefits when they're taking away citizen benefits'' by cutting housing, education and other domestic programs, Mr. Matsui said.
The liberals said they had seen no evidence that Mr. Clinton would fight for his proposal to restore benefits for some immigrants. And without a serious effort by the President, they said, the proposal will die.
Rahm I. Emanuel, a senior adviser to Mr. Clinton, said tonight: ''This is a priority for the President. His words and his deeds show his commitment.''
In December, many White House officials urged the President to seek a two-year delay in provisions of the welfare law terminating benefits for legal immigrants. Under pressure from immigrants and their advocates, Mr. Clinton decided instead to seek full restoration of some benefits, at a total cost exceeding $10 billion over five years.
But Mr. Matsui said Congress would not restore benefits for immigrants unless the Governors of New York, California, Texas and Illinois lobbied for such changes. All four states have large immigrant populations -- and Republican Governors.
Mr. Matsui's political analysis echoed that of Republicans like Representative E. Clay Shaw Jr. of Florida, the subcommittee chairman. Mr. Shaw said Congressional Republicans were united on this issue. ''We are not going to reopen last year's welfare reform bill,'' he said.
Olivia A. Golden, acting chief of the Federal Administration for Children and Families, and Representative Sander M. Levin, a Michigan Democrat who ultimately voted for the welfare bill, defended the President's proposals to soften its effects.
Under the new law, most noncitizens are barred from the food stamp and Supplemental Security Income programs. People receiving Supplemental Security Income are usually entitled to Medicaid as well.
Ms. Golden said Congress should ''make legal immigrants who become disabled after entering the United States eligible for S.S.I. and Medicaid.'' This proposal would help 320,000 immigrants, she said.
But Mr. Stark said Mr. Clinton ''has taken over a million of our most valuable citizens, the little children, and tossed them into poverty.''
Mr. Stark said the President would ''go down in history for destroying over a half-million children by pushing them into poverty'' unless he did more to undo the new welfare law. ''We thought it was wrongheaded to begin with, when the Republicans proposed it, and it was a sellout by the President to sign it,'' Mr. Stark said.
Cecilia Munoz, deputy vice president of the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic civil rights organization, said that such comments reflected the liberals' ''anger at the President's signing of the bill.''
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'I worked one hundred murders,' says Detective Mike Hoolihan, an American policewoman. 'In my time I have come in on the aftermath of maybe a thousand suspicious deaths, most of which turned out to be suicides, accidentals or plain unattendeds.
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I say all this because I am part of the story I am going to tell, and I feel the need to give you some idea of where I'm coming from.' Night Train is a mystery story which lingers in the reader's mind even after Mike Hoolihan declares the case closed.
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A pioneering assessment of the history of the English novel, Stephen Ahern's new study "Affected Sensibilities" reconsiders the role played by the early British novel in the shift from a culture of libertinism during the Restoration and its aftermath, to a culture of sentimentality from mid-century through the beginnings of Romanticism. In a perceptive series of essays on prose narratives, the author develops the provocative thesis that the amatory, sentimental, and Gothic fictional forms that dominate the marketplace in the early years of the novel are deeply connected by a concern with sensibility, a capacity for living intensely that is largely determined by class and gender. Countering the standard account of sensibility's history, Ahern asserts the concept first appeared in the later seventeenth-century amatory tales and novels of Aphra Behn, and furthermore outlines significant continuities among the amatory, the sentimental, and the Gothic as fictional genres and as broader cultural modes. Ahern's extensive, careful, and original analyses combining studies of romance with studies of sensibility bring valuable new insights to a growing field of study. With a wide range of reference and a broad chronological scope, including chapters on the aforementioned Aphra Behn, on Eliza Haywood, Laurence Sterne, Ann Radcliffe, and Matthew Lewis, among others, "Affected Sensibilities" contributes to our understanding of the early novel and the cultural history of sensibility in a compelling discussion that will interest students and scholars alike.Create a review
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Best name suggestion I've seen for the newborn drain on the taxpayer...
(738 Posts)I popped into a pub this afternoon for a wee and a pint and they had a Royal Baby Name sweepstake board behind the bar.
Someone had suggested 'Dodi.'
Yes, it'd be good if William could save someone I knew. In reality the army wouldn't let him do anything too dangerous, so it's more likely that any saving is going to be done by dispensable "commoners".
Good point toys!
'Dodi' as a name for the new royal is not even slightly amusing btw.
sashh: it was me who said that.. A 30th cousin is unlikely to get to the throne any time soon. In any case, I'm not a Brit (merely scandinavian/mediterranean), so can't be counted in the lot of distant cousins.
But I though the Royal family wasn't particularly British (hence their name, which they'd like to conveniently forget - "Saxe-Coburg and Gotha"?), anyway?
Alla: I don't know, and I'll never get the chance to try the role for myself as I'm not one of the Saxe-Coburg (robot grin ) clan.
In the early hours of this morning there was talk of some rapper being a cousin of the new baby, but something like 30th cousin.
Apparently if you have a British ancestor you are probably at least the 30th cousin of a royal, probably a 20th.
PeoplesRep, of course we would all be equally grateful regardless of who the rescuer was. My point was, he does do a job, an important one as far as I'm concerned. I am not a swooner, regardless of the situation but am positive if one of mine were rescued I would mention it to friends and I'm sure most people would. As I have never been privy to Williams time sheet I cannot comment on how many hours he puts in a week. Thanks for your response, it's always good to see things from another's perspective.
Overthefields, what an utterly ridiculous argument. If one of my family got into trouble and needed rescuing, they'd be recused by whoever happened to be on duty at the time. It's hardly likely to be Wills given how little time he actually spends working .
If it was him I would not go all swoony just because, gosh, he's a real life prince . I'd be equally bloody grateful if it was Bill Smith from Birmingham who pulled them out of the sea/off the cliff.
If the baby in questions Father happened to rescue a member of your family carrying out his JOB, would you feel the same I wonder.
Wow, what an irony, so where do all the lentil weaving guardian reading Republican MNetters hang out?
Triggles the few people who hate both rich and poor and post about on MN are the sorts of people who just come on for a ruck.
I have. I'm happy with them.
And those people unwilling to disturb status quo in order to make a better, more equal society, just because "it could be worse", need to examine their reasons.
Not always, no, but sometimes they are. ANd I'm referring to all across MN, not just on this thread.
I'm not angry at either. But I do think the monarchy needs to remain, for a number of reasons. We all have differing opinions. I just hate to see the bile spewed out towards the royals, especially the main group of them - they were all "born into their positions" and are simply living their lives. They could do a lot worse. All these people that freak out over them and say nasty things about them need to calm down and re-examine their reasons for their hatred. It's unbalanced IMO.
Triggles, the people who are angry at the poor and those who are angry at the rich, are not necessarily the same groups of people.
I'm not angry at either. I just think the monarchy is outdated and no longer relevant.
There's a disturbing trend showing on MN lately (or maybe it's just always been there and I've not noticed it before).... people are angry at the poor because with their benefits they MIGHT have something more.. and they're angry at the rich because they DO have something more. It seems that some will never be happy unless the poor are pushed down into the gutter (where they think the poor belong) and the rich are dragged down to their level.
Wokeup, no he has way more holiday than all his colleagues and gets to nick a helicopter to fly his brother around whenever he fancies - it's ridiculous.
^^ it isn't just Royals, you know, who have more than 20/25 days of holiday per year !
serious questions:
1- Does William work as many weeks of the year as every other commoner does? Counting the number of times he is photographed here and there, I wonder whether he has only 20/25 days of holidays per year?
2- Same for his brother.
SGB, my ex mil called me a heartless bitch for not crying about Diana. But I didn't like the woman. And whilst I didn't wish her ill, I wasn't going to start wailing and grieving for someone I had never met and couldn't care less about.
The queen is unbelievably sour faced. The Olympics was a classic example - she took part in that cringingly bad sketch with Daniel Craig and then once in the arena she sat looking miserable and bored for the entire opening ceremony.
I felt embarrassed watching it!
There are round here (three-generational benefits) remember that if you have your DCs at 16 or thereabouts it doesn't take many years before there are 3 generations. There are drug dependency /dealing etc involved and the ensuing mental health problems, or claims of them, which absolves people from responsibility in the eyes of the state.
generational dependence and all that
Grrr. There are NO three-generation scrounger families, the government made them up. Charities, universities and newspapers have sent teams of researchers into all the worst-deprived areas, and found nary a one. The govt eventually admitted they made it up, but forgot to tell the Daily Hate or alter the very expensive policies founded on their own lie. There aren't even many two-generation dependent families, though current economic policy will see to that shortly.
Anyways, SGB - thread topic:
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Quite interesting that some people react with even more pants-pooing outrage at the suggestion that someone might not feel that much grief when a PITA of a family member dies. If you dislike and despise someone, you might not wish them harm, you might well be sorry that they died at a young age and feel pity for their DC if they have DC, but you might not feel much grief at the departure of someone who wasn't very nice. And it can be difficult and stressful to have morons poking at you and demanding to see you cry when you're actually quite relieved to be rid of the PITA.
Angel they'd only say you were well ugly if you'd previously said how other women were jealous of your looks
They'd have to find my professor to give his official professional opinion, as well. Embarrassingly enough, I don't remember his name. Only what he looked like - sort of.
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"A husband," the story reported, "has filed for divorce after accusing his wife of conducting an affair via computer e-mail with a man called `The Weasel'." Sordid details followed, of an unconsummated union, saucy electronic badinage, secret assignations, projected trysts in New Hampshire, bed and breakfast... The report ended, "The man, whose on-line name was The Weasel, was identified only as Ray from north Carolina".
Hah! Ray from north Carolina, whoever he is, can take a flying kick at the moon. He fools nobody with his pathetic attempt to muscle in on my new-found fame as a swordsman of the boudoir. Now it's in the papers, I'd better confess that yes, I, Valentino Weasel, have for years been a serial heartbreaker. Like my illustrious ancestor Casanova Weasellotti, I have loved not wisely but too well. Lord Byron in his precision-tool prime, Warren Beatty in his bonker's bouffant, Sinatra in his priapic glory are as mewling schoolboys leafing through a copy of Titbits by comparison with my exploits d'amour. Yes, yes (I lay a cooling forearm against my impassion'd brow) it's all true: I've starred in more bedrooms than Osborne & Little.
Mrs W is aghast at the news. She is lying down with a cambric square soaked in 4711 over her streaming eyes and is not speaking to me. How can she resolve the dogged and kindly suburbanite who takes in the milk in the morning, with the opera-cloaked, honey-tongued, Mates-festooned Lothario at whose tiniest whispered suggestion married women in New Hampshire throw caution to the winds and clamber into unfeasibly small knickers prior to shedding them in plyboard motels? She thought she'd married Gerald Durrell; she woke up with Alan Clark.
I started small. A sonnet sequence here, a bunch of arctic violets there and the neighbours' wives were putty in my paws. I graduated to inexpensive restaurants and Butler & Wilson bijoux, and the ladies on the Neighbourhood Watch Committee came across at a surprising rate. Tickets to Me and My Girl usually guaranteed a result with the daughters of my Rotarian confreres, though it took a weekend in Chewton Glen to part my local MP from her frilled Sloggis. It was all, in other words, getting too damn expensive. How could I maintain my erotic strike rate without going bankrupt? Then I hit on the solution: computers.
Anyone who's ever worked in a networked office knows the incendiary passions of the messaging system, on which supposedly businesslike exchanges are rapidly replaced by innuendo-salted impertinence and people flirt more boldly with each other than they would down the telephone, more privately than down the fax line and more deliciously than they'd ever do face to face. It was stroke of genius for the Internet chaps to turn this in-house bonker's telly into an international electronic sex market.
Now my secret's out, the floodgates will open. My screen will be filled for weeks with double entendres from around the world, with brazen speculations and invitations to lunch. The air above Weasel Villas will hum with pheremonal urgency. And to think that, 4,000 miles away, some wilting loser called Ray will still be trying to pinch all the credit...
Computers can do a lot for your seduction skills, but they can't, apparently, find a conclusion to the Great Pi Question and put out of their misery those bizarre obsessives dedicated to its pursuit. You may remember that pi is something to do with calculating the dimensions of a circle and derives from dividing 22 by seven, a sum that can be continued infinitely.
Most folks are happy to leave the solution at 3.14 but last week Yasumasa Kanada, a professor at Tokyo University, announced he had calculated it to a billion decimal places on a supercomputer. To say this is surplus to requirements is putting it mildly. Calculating the circumference of a perfect circle the size of the known universe requires only 39 decimal places.
For most of this decade, however, Prof Kanada has been racing against the shadowy Chudnovsky brothers, a pair of Russian expatriates living in New York, to plumb even deeper into the infinity of pi. Supported only by their wives (they both had the good sense to marry lawyers), David and Gregory Chudnovsky were the first to reach a billion decimal places, in 1989. They managed this by using clumps of microchips, cooled by electric fans, strewn around their Manhattan apartment. In 1992, after their arch- rival Kanada surged well past the billion point, the brothers induced their Heath Robinson contraption to regurgitate 2.2 billion decimal places. This game of numerical leapfrog between the camps has been going on ever since.
Ah, the vanity of human strivings, the search for the key to the world's secrets! "What," I asked Mrs W, "in your opinion, is the secret of pi?" "Nice thin crust and a touch of cinnamon," she replied. I swear that woman knows something.
With St Valentine's Day looming, I'm getting a little alarmed about my favourite aphrodisiac. I refer, of course, to the oyster, which I consume in abundant quantities on the evening of the 14th to sustain me for the rigours ahead. I am concerned that these succulent bivalves, evocatively described by the American writer Eleanor Clark as a "piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes", might not be so efficacious as I'd hoped in the libido department.
The reason is that Angela Browning, Minister of Agriculture, is determined to deprive the oyster of its rest and comfort. She has decided that European rules governing the transportation of live animals need not apply to shellfish. There is, she says heartlessly, no need for the poor things to enjoy rest periods during their journey, or to have their handsome exoskeletons regularly sprayed with water.
This is all very well for the shellfish producers of Colchester, who objected vigorously to the EU directive, but what of the consumer? If the crustacea are all in a tizz, lorry-lagged, out of puff and limp after a stressful journey, what effect will it have on my performance? I have, after all (see above), a certain reputation to maintain.
Though I was sorry to read a few days ago that a flock of seven Great American flamingos in the garden of Buckingham Palace had been scoffed by a fox (it makes a change for the royal family to be on the receiving end of a fox hunt), I found it hard to resist a sneaking glow of pleasure that at least one resident of London has benefited from this private enclave so strenuously denied to the rest of us.
For six years or so, my bus ride to work took me past the palace. From the top deck of the No 38, it is possible to get a good look at the 45 acres of rolling palatial parkland. I discovered that, with the exception of the three days of summer garden parties, this great chunk of central London is completely unused - not just by the general public but by the royal household. Whatever the time of year, it always appeared to be completely empty. Only on one morning was my rubbernecking rewarded when I saw a couple of young men playing a desultory game of tennis in the down- at-heel courts at the Hyde Park Corner end of things. I was too far away to tell if there was an HRH among the players, though one of them displayed a stylish, if underpowered, backhand.
Palace officials, in their usual curmudgeonly way, refused to reveal how Mr Fox had gained access to his pink-plumed snack. It seems unlikely that he grappled his way over the 12-foot surrounding walls, which have been surmounted (since the Michael Fagan incident) by a secret security purchased from Israel. It appears that he slunk in through one of the Palace's several back gates.
If a fox can get in, so can a weasel. Give me a wave from the No 38...


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Clearly, I am one of the most active people on LJ -- although strictly speaking, having a last entry dated 30th July really isn't too bad 8);; Most of the time, I find myself typing out an entry and giving up halfway because it all seems rather dull and insipid anyway. However, I'm compelled to scream my lungs flat today because my laptop hard-drive decides that living for a year is GOOD ENOUGH and this basically translates to a trashing of 160 GB of songs and videos, which fuels an urge to want to tear something apart >:| Come volunteer yourselves for the cause 8)As a distraction, I've also been on a drawing high recently and completely willing to try out all sorts of new poses I've never done before but should have. A lot of it turned out funny since I am sadly not an artistic genius but well. One of the reasons why I draw is so that I get to laugh at my own work anyway. Although I must say, it's pretty touching to hear that a random piece of art you've drawn for someone can actually brighten their day. I guess I draw for selfish reasons lolol go me. Anyway, here be 5 pictures drawn in the span of 3 days, don't ask me what I go to school for 8D;
Yeah, you all get it raw like chicken 8)
Whyyy scanner! Whyyy won't you work! In other notes, I have become totally accustomed to introducing Yami Yori by D to everyone who's remotely interested in J-music. It's pretty much a sensation when your friends periodically burst out singing "My dearrr rose" during lectures. Asagi is also officially the BARA man. Or the rose man. Or the BARA OTOKO :D Yami yori is revolutionary, especially the screencap from the PV where you can see his crown of feathers while he stares at the screen in a wonderful Tsunehito-styled rendition of the petrified rock. -> O o OI am also beginning to think that Miku from AnCafe looks like Roxas. I need a bigger picture of Miku lawl but basically Miku's the blonde dude in the second picture, in case someone doesn't know who I'm talking about. Well, you can tell me I'm crazy and they don't look alike because I have formulated a "my brain has been fried by Chemistry" excuse but I really don't think my brain's that far fried. At least the blonde hair and blue eyes work, yes? 8DScannerrrr, why won't you workkkk!
One of the most inane things NUS has adopted is the module bidding system. It's like bidding on Yahoo!J auctions with an ultra limited budget while pitting yourself against millionaires. I don't see how bidding for modules can be beneficial to me in any way. It just feels like I'm bidding for Doraemon fanbooks on Yahoo!J auctions at overpriced amounts because a Doraemon-crazed otaku is holding a gun to my head and making me do it. So NOT funny. The next completely ridiculous thing I saw was tutorial 1 of my principles of modern chemistry module, on which question number 1 says: "state the SI units or mass, length and time." followed by question number 2: "Define potential energy." and question number 3: "Define kinetic energy." and by define "F = q1q2/ 4(pi)E(naut)R(square)". ARE YOU SURE THIS IS CHEMISTRY?! >_>
Warning: This is a purely shallow fangirling entry i.e: I will not be growing a brain anytime through this post. After working at it for nearly half a day, I've finally got my new layout settled and it's Mushishi! (I'm sure the whole wide world probably no one expected that 8D) Anyway, I'm kind of proud of it albeit the fact that it still looks pretty bare. I'm too lazy to fill it with more stuff or to spend more than half a day doing it so there. Anyway this is most obviously so that I can begin my pimping drive for Mushishi, which of course starts in the next line: WATCH MUSHISHI IF YOU HAVEN'T BECAUSE IT'S NOT LICENSED BY ODEX YET MIND-BLOWINGLY AMAZING. If anyone's even interested, layout picture was taken from the Mushishi movie yey :D I'm just a tad ( definition of a tad: the exact opposite of it's original meaning) annoyed that I can't find the movie anywhere. -whines about how the movie looks good and I want to watch it-. And I'm supposed to whine somemore, or I tell myself I should whine somemore but I'm too tired to do it, so this is the end of my short whining/fangirling session. p_、でわでわ。