Monthly Archives: October 2012

Fair enough.

Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald (bottom centre left) with members of the Joint Committee on Health and Children: (back from left) Billy Kelleher, Peter Fitzpatrick, Jerry Buttimer, Robert Dowds, Ciara Conway and Seamus Healy with (bottom from left) Catherine Byrne, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, Robert Troy, Mary Mitchell O’Connor and Jillian Van Turnhout.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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Meanwhile, at the Transparency International Conference in Dublin:

The Russian Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Biennale Of Architecture: a sci-fi set in waiting: QR codes which decode to reveal different perspectives and ideas about Skolkovo – a new Russian ‘city’ dedicated to science.

Downstairs, visitors can peer through lenses to catch a glimpse of the gated and secretive science towns established under the Soviet Union, intended to provide a contrast with the open and collaborative vision presented upstairs. The Skolkovo science and technology centre will be located near Moscow by 2017 and bring together 500 companies working on IT, biomedical research, nuclear research, energy and space technology plus a university and homes.

Obligatory: there’s always two.

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Gerard S writes:

I know you ‘don’t normally do this’, but I am furious with myself and whoever stole my bike (above) an hour ago from the back of Ben Dunne’s Gym on Jervis Street, Dublin. I borrowed the bike from my partner and I’m in big trouble for not using a more secure lock (a u-lock instead of a flimsy cable and padlock). As you can understand, I’d be very grateful to anyone with news of its whereabouts.

Two people familiar with the case who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the confidentiality agreement say Sullivan Stemberg believes that Romney understated the future value of Staples, which could have lowered the settlement Stemberg paid. At the time, Romney was a leader at Bain Capital, a major early investor in Staples, and a member of the Staples board.

Romney told the divorce trial judge he believed the office supply company could go bankrupt at any time and the company’s stock, then estimated at $2 a share, was over-valued, according to media accounts when Sullivan Stemberg appealed the divorce settlement.

A year after the settlement, Staples went public, and its stock value soared to $19 a share. Bain Capital turned a $2.5 million investment into a $13 million profit. Romney’s decision to back the firm helped cement his reputation as a savvy investor.

 

Go Mitt.

Staples’s Value May Be Issue In Romney’s Testimony (Washington Post)

Judge UNSEALS Mitt Divorce Transcript Docs(TMZ)