The Curtin Student Guild is the student representative association at Curtin University. The Guild began life as the WAIT Student Guild in November 1968. Since the introduction of voluntary student unionism in 2006, the Guild has operated on the membership fees of students who have chosen to join. The money collected is used to provide a number of services. In addition to providing member representation the Guild manages most of the food outlets on campus, and also runs services which include a tavern, second-hand book-shop, student assist and The Spot - a ticketing outlet and newsagent/convenience store. Many of the student and social clubs at Curtin are supported by the Guild and events such as a "Beach Bash" held in semester one and "Oktoberfest" held in semester two are regular Guild-provided fixtures. The Guild publishes the campus magazine known as Grok. Student representatives are elected to their positions by students in annual elections held in September.
Postgraduate students are represented by a Guild department called the Curtin University Postgraduate Student Association (CUPSA). Other departments include ISC (International Students Committee), Women’s, Gender and Sexuality, Indigenous, and Environment.
Postgraduate students are represented by a Guild department called the Curtin University Postgraduate Student Association (CUPSA). Other departments include ISC (International Students Committee), Women’s, Gender and Sexuality, Indigenous, and Environment.
Toy Mic Trevor is a Cardiff, Wales-based street entertainer. He regularly performs on Cardiff's Queen Street, using an Echo-brand toy microphone. Originally from London, he moved to the Rhondda Valley in 2001, and has since become a familiar sight to Cardiff shoppers.
The largest crowd he has ever performed in front of was at Radio 1's Big Weekend event in 2003. He has also appeared on the BBC One children's program Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow.
In an interview conducted by the Toy Mic Trevor fansite in 2004, Trevor stated that his main influences are : Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Elvis Presley, Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck.
In April 2007, Toy Mic Trevor recorded the song for the credits to the Admiral Group Staff General Meeting video. This was shown to a crowd of over a thousand in St. David's Hall, Cardiff.
The largest crowd he has ever performed in front of was at Radio 1's Big Weekend event in 2003. He has also appeared on the BBC One children's program Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow.
In an interview conducted by the Toy Mic Trevor fansite in 2004, Trevor stated that his main influences are : Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Elvis Presley, Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck.
In April 2007, Toy Mic Trevor recorded the song for the credits to the Admiral Group Staff General Meeting video. This was shown to a crowd of over a thousand in St. David's Hall, Cardiff.
PQ Media is a research consultancy specializing in global media econometrics, providing data and analytics on the rapidly diverging global media industry. The Stamford, Connecticut-based firm’s clients include some of the world's leading media and entertainment companies and financial institutions. Founded by Patrick Quinn, PQ Media provides strategic and educational consulting services and alternative media research reports.
Organization
PQ Media provides media econometrics data and digital out-of-home and branded entertainment media research for media clients seeking actionable strategic intelligence. The firm uses proprietary mapping system; and analyses and forecasts of spending, usage and trends in 20 major segments and more than 100 sub-segments of the media industry.
Services
Strategic Consulting
PQ Media's strategic consulting services focus on go-to-market strategy development & analytics by country and region; comprehensive view and predictive assessment of shifting trends in the media landscape & emerging media; and growth trends & perspective on measured and unmeasured media.
Alternative media research reports
PQ Media provides reports that define, structure, size and forecast emerging media segments such as digital out-of-home advertising, product placement in media, event marketing, mobile and social media advertising, and word-of-mouth marketing, among others.
The PQ Media Historical Alternative Media Database provides the only historical operator revenue/end-user spending database recalibrated annually to maintain accuracy and includes new media as they emerge.
Findings from PQ Media reports are frequently cited in the media and serve as the basis for industry discussions.
The PQ Media report, Global Digital Out-of-Home Media Forecast, 2011-2015, indicated that revenue generated by digital place-based network, billboard and signage operators, grew 16.3% to $6.47 billion in 2010 and is projected to expand 16.9% in 2011.
"Political Media Spending Hits All-Time High" ADWEEK, 15 December 2010] on political media spending during the 2010 U.S. midterm election cycle showed a record-breaking $4.55 billion spent by campaigns.
Organization
PQ Media provides media econometrics data and digital out-of-home and branded entertainment media research for media clients seeking actionable strategic intelligence. The firm uses proprietary mapping system; and analyses and forecasts of spending, usage and trends in 20 major segments and more than 100 sub-segments of the media industry.
Services
Strategic Consulting
PQ Media's strategic consulting services focus on go-to-market strategy development & analytics by country and region; comprehensive view and predictive assessment of shifting trends in the media landscape & emerging media; and growth trends & perspective on measured and unmeasured media.
Alternative media research reports
PQ Media provides reports that define, structure, size and forecast emerging media segments such as digital out-of-home advertising, product placement in media, event marketing, mobile and social media advertising, and word-of-mouth marketing, among others.
The PQ Media Historical Alternative Media Database provides the only historical operator revenue/end-user spending database recalibrated annually to maintain accuracy and includes new media as they emerge.
Findings from PQ Media reports are frequently cited in the media and serve as the basis for industry discussions.
The PQ Media report, Global Digital Out-of-Home Media Forecast, 2011-2015, indicated that revenue generated by digital place-based network, billboard and signage operators, grew 16.3% to $6.47 billion in 2010 and is projected to expand 16.9% in 2011.
"Political Media Spending Hits All-Time High" ADWEEK, 15 December 2010] on political media spending during the 2010 U.S. midterm election cycle showed a record-breaking $4.55 billion spent by campaigns.
Prior to his capture on December 13, 2003, former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's death was reported as a strong possibility by various Western analysts and officials, after a bombing attack on Baghdad at the start of the 2003 Iraq War, March 20, 2003, and subsequently after a second attempt in the closing days of the war. However, through November of that year, the United States Department of Defense insisted Saddam was still alive.
Regardless of whether Saddam had in fact been killed, attempts by both sides (Iraqi, as well as its Coalition opponents) to convince the Iraqi people that he was alive or dead were part of the "psychological warfare" or "war propaganda." In particular, the Coalition "shock and awe" strategy attempted to disrupt command and control of the enemy forces. If Iraqi soldiers were convinced of Saddam's death, it could lead to increased desertion or surrender, while if Iraqi people were convinced he was alive, it might encourage resistance against the invasion, out of both loyalty and fear.
Saddam was widely regarded as a "master of survival," making any assassination attempt difficult. He supposedly made use of body doubles, who have reportedly had plastic surgery and learned his mannerisms. He shied away from public appearances, preferring to use doubles for any such events. He is reported not to have slept two consecutive nights in the same place for years. He also had a network of bunkers and tunnels designed to withstand nuclear overpressures. They may not be able to withstand direct hits from purpose-built "bunker buster" precision bombs. During the 1990-1991 Gulf War, he allegedly spent several weeks in a tent in the middle of the desert, and in one incident turned up unannounced at the house of a family near Basra to stay the night.
Rumours of the death of Saddam can be compared to similar rumours of the death of Osama bin Laden during the 2001 Afghanistan war. An alternative theory that had Saddam alive, but outside of Iraq, placed him at the Hotel Côte d'Azur De Cham in Latakiya, Syria.
March 20, 2003 bombing
At approximately 02:30 UTC or about 90 minutes after the lapse of the 48-hour deadline, at 7:00 am local time, explosions were heard in Baghdad. At 03:15 UTC, or 10:15 p.m. EST, President George W. Bush announced that he had ordered the coalition to launch an attack on a "target of opportunity" against specified targets in Iraq. According to The Pentagon, 36 Tomahawk missiles and two F-117 launched GBU-27 bombs had been used in this assault. Other reports have the number of missiles at forty or more. The targets were high-level Iraqi governmental officials, including Saddam Hussein himself, and were based on specific intelligence which led the U.S. government to believe it knew his movements.
An address apparently made by Saddam Hussein was broadcast on Iraqi TV later on March 20 at approximately 21:00 local time. Iraqi state television claimed that this report was live. The person making the broadcast refers to the date of the bombing and the fact that it was at dawn. He was wearing glasses and reading from handwritten notes. This broadcast did not convince US analysts that Saddam was still alive. Analysts seized upon the glasses and notes as two big differences from Saddam Hussein's usual TV appearances. Additionally, a former mistress of the Iraqi president said it was not him. Senator Pat Roberts said that he had been told that US intelligence officials that at least some of the Iraqi leadership had been killed in the attack. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said that "The CIA's assessment of the tape is that it does appear to be the voice of Saddam, but there is no conclusive evidence about whether that was taped before or after the operation began."
On the March 23 Foreign Office minister said that "If he was injured it doesn't appear that it was a serious injury," referring to intelligence reports that Saddam had left the area in an ambulance.
Later broadcasts
The second broadcast of the war was made on the March 24, where Saddam dressed in a green military uniform, and again read from a script. He looked in better health than the person making the previous broadcast on the 20th. He named the port of Umm Qasr and referenced individual commanders and their locations. He also named the 45th Battalion of the 11th Division, adding extra credibility. UK Defence Minister Geoff Hoon said that "Obviously analysis continues, but what I can say straight away is that those pictures were not live." Hoon also claimed that the Iraqi leader had made a number of pre-recorded broadcasts for use in different eventualities.
Most commentators continued to believe that Saddam Hussein was alive. On April 4 he appeared on Iraqi TV and made specific references to an Apache helicopter that had been shot down by a farmer or peasant using an antique musket. US intelligence officials said this showed that it was probably made after the first night of bombings (and it is particularly probable given the specificity of the references) that targeted him and his sons, which meant that the initial bombings did not kill him.
April 7, 2003 bombing
On April 7, at around 15:00 local time, an air strike was carried out on Mansour, a residential area of Baghdad, on intelligence that Saddam and/or his two sons might be there along with other senior Iraqi officials. A single B-1B bomber dropped four precision-guided JDAM 2,000-pound bombs. The warplane was already aloft in case any such "target of opportunity" arose. The strike was unleashed just twelve minutes after receiving the orders and just 45 minutes after the intelligence tip was received by the Central Command in Qatar. The four bunker-penetrating bombs destroyed the target building, the al Saa restaurant block and several surrounding structures, leaving a 60-foot crater and unknown casualties.
The area of Baghdad that was bombed was not under coalition control at the time, so U.S. officials could not confirm the extent of the casualties. On April 4, video was released of Saddam walking in the street of a Baghdad neighbourhood surrounded by throngs of supporters. The neighbourhood in the videotape was the same one target in the April 7 strike.
Some U.S. officials privately were certain that Saddam was killed in the strike, but publicly the government remained cautious and stressed that the demise of Saddam himself is not the ultimate goal of the military conflict. British intelligence officials believed that Saddam may have left the targeted building just minutes before it was destroyed, and that he probably survived the attack. Their belief was vindicated by Saddam's capture on December 13, 2003.
Regardless of whether Saddam had in fact been killed, attempts by both sides (Iraqi, as well as its Coalition opponents) to convince the Iraqi people that he was alive or dead were part of the "psychological warfare" or "war propaganda." In particular, the Coalition "shock and awe" strategy attempted to disrupt command and control of the enemy forces. If Iraqi soldiers were convinced of Saddam's death, it could lead to increased desertion or surrender, while if Iraqi people were convinced he was alive, it might encourage resistance against the invasion, out of both loyalty and fear.
Saddam was widely regarded as a "master of survival," making any assassination attempt difficult. He supposedly made use of body doubles, who have reportedly had plastic surgery and learned his mannerisms. He shied away from public appearances, preferring to use doubles for any such events. He is reported not to have slept two consecutive nights in the same place for years. He also had a network of bunkers and tunnels designed to withstand nuclear overpressures. They may not be able to withstand direct hits from purpose-built "bunker buster" precision bombs. During the 1990-1991 Gulf War, he allegedly spent several weeks in a tent in the middle of the desert, and in one incident turned up unannounced at the house of a family near Basra to stay the night.
Rumours of the death of Saddam can be compared to similar rumours of the death of Osama bin Laden during the 2001 Afghanistan war. An alternative theory that had Saddam alive, but outside of Iraq, placed him at the Hotel Côte d'Azur De Cham in Latakiya, Syria.
March 20, 2003 bombing
At approximately 02:30 UTC or about 90 minutes after the lapse of the 48-hour deadline, at 7:00 am local time, explosions were heard in Baghdad. At 03:15 UTC, or 10:15 p.m. EST, President George W. Bush announced that he had ordered the coalition to launch an attack on a "target of opportunity" against specified targets in Iraq. According to The Pentagon, 36 Tomahawk missiles and two F-117 launched GBU-27 bombs had been used in this assault. Other reports have the number of missiles at forty or more. The targets were high-level Iraqi governmental officials, including Saddam Hussein himself, and were based on specific intelligence which led the U.S. government to believe it knew his movements.
An address apparently made by Saddam Hussein was broadcast on Iraqi TV later on March 20 at approximately 21:00 local time. Iraqi state television claimed that this report was live. The person making the broadcast refers to the date of the bombing and the fact that it was at dawn. He was wearing glasses and reading from handwritten notes. This broadcast did not convince US analysts that Saddam was still alive. Analysts seized upon the glasses and notes as two big differences from Saddam Hussein's usual TV appearances. Additionally, a former mistress of the Iraqi president said it was not him. Senator Pat Roberts said that he had been told that US intelligence officials that at least some of the Iraqi leadership had been killed in the attack. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said that "The CIA's assessment of the tape is that it does appear to be the voice of Saddam, but there is no conclusive evidence about whether that was taped before or after the operation began."
On the March 23 Foreign Office minister said that "If he was injured it doesn't appear that it was a serious injury," referring to intelligence reports that Saddam had left the area in an ambulance.
Later broadcasts
The second broadcast of the war was made on the March 24, where Saddam dressed in a green military uniform, and again read from a script. He looked in better health than the person making the previous broadcast on the 20th. He named the port of Umm Qasr and referenced individual commanders and their locations. He also named the 45th Battalion of the 11th Division, adding extra credibility. UK Defence Minister Geoff Hoon said that "Obviously analysis continues, but what I can say straight away is that those pictures were not live." Hoon also claimed that the Iraqi leader had made a number of pre-recorded broadcasts for use in different eventualities.
Most commentators continued to believe that Saddam Hussein was alive. On April 4 he appeared on Iraqi TV and made specific references to an Apache helicopter that had been shot down by a farmer or peasant using an antique musket. US intelligence officials said this showed that it was probably made after the first night of bombings (and it is particularly probable given the specificity of the references) that targeted him and his sons, which meant that the initial bombings did not kill him.
April 7, 2003 bombing
On April 7, at around 15:00 local time, an air strike was carried out on Mansour, a residential area of Baghdad, on intelligence that Saddam and/or his two sons might be there along with other senior Iraqi officials. A single B-1B bomber dropped four precision-guided JDAM 2,000-pound bombs. The warplane was already aloft in case any such "target of opportunity" arose. The strike was unleashed just twelve minutes after receiving the orders and just 45 minutes after the intelligence tip was received by the Central Command in Qatar. The four bunker-penetrating bombs destroyed the target building, the al Saa restaurant block and several surrounding structures, leaving a 60-foot crater and unknown casualties.
The area of Baghdad that was bombed was not under coalition control at the time, so U.S. officials could not confirm the extent of the casualties. On April 4, video was released of Saddam walking in the street of a Baghdad neighbourhood surrounded by throngs of supporters. The neighbourhood in the videotape was the same one target in the April 7 strike.
Some U.S. officials privately were certain that Saddam was killed in the strike, but publicly the government remained cautious and stressed that the demise of Saddam himself is not the ultimate goal of the military conflict. British intelligence officials believed that Saddam may have left the targeted building just minutes before it was destroyed, and that he probably survived the attack. Their belief was vindicated by Saddam's capture on December 13, 2003.