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As first presented to the public, the Bush Administration appeared ready, willing and able to open the homeland defense purse strings to allow first responders–police, EMS and firefighters–to purchase and operate a fleet of new law enforcement and parapublic mission-configured rotorcraft. Manufacturers, ever on the hunt for fresh sales, rubbed their palms together in anticipation of multi-ship orders fattening their heretofore anorexic order books. Imagine their surprise when the first homeland defense budget–four months delayed because of mid-term elections and Iraq-related uncertainty–contains less than half the appropriation for first responders than had been previously indicated by the Administration. In contrast to the apparent cooling toward use of new aviation assets for anti-terrorism patrol, the homeland defense package earmarked for IT (information technology) amounted to $7 billion more than the amount put forward in the previous year.
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Me and my friend are only 17 and obviously the legal age to drink is 18. Last night we got hold of some vodka and Coca Cola from the shop and went into a bar and sat down, ready to drink some of the drink in our bag.
I went to the toilet and stupidly my friend went to the bar to try and buy some shots, and they asked for ID. She just said "hold on my friend might have my ID" (obviously we didn't have ID) and then she followed me into the toilet. She told me what had happened, and then we were like omg we should leave now.
next minute, the bar manager and two bouncers came into the toilet and said "we're searching your bags" and took all our drink away. We then followed them to the bar, and the manager had a walkie talkie and I think she was telling the police to be on the look out for two girls of our description, and I think she might've called the police on us.
and then I turned around to the bouncer and said "can I quickly go outside for a fag?" And he just said "yeah that's fine"
and my friend followed me, and then we both did a runner. We didn't want to get in trouble because we'd be in deep shit.
What would they of done with our confiscated drinks?
(btw don't worry we're never doing it again)
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They would have thrown it out.11|00|0
Thought so. My friend was freaking out saying what if they take dna swabs 😂


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text: Wildlife Fear of research Staff June 27, 1994 From the print edition Print Share Subscribe Donate Now Tree clip art After getting hammered by protests from loggers on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, the Forest Service abruptly killed an old-growth research project it had backed for the last 18 months. University of Washington scientists wanted to erect a 300-foot crane to study one of the least known areas of old-growth forests - the canopy. The Olympic Peninsula setting was perfect, the crane was ready for construction, and Congress had approved five years of funding. But the Forest Service balked at the last minute after 200 residents of nearby Lake Quinault signed petitions against the crane. Citizens of the old logging community say more research would only shrink their already shrinking timber industry. Project director Jerry Franklin, a forestry professor at the University of Washington, called the protests a symbolic act of retribution. "They see science, scientists and scientific knowledge as a major source of their pain, rather than as a potential solution," Franklin told the Seattle Times. Franklin says he has given up hope of erecting the crane on the Olympic Peninsula, where the region's old growth is most productive and diverse. He says the university will look for new sites in the Columbia River gorge or central Oregon Cascade Range. Republish Share Like Tweet +1 LinkedIn Email Wildlife Comments


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A magical glow arises from the land. "Our economy is evolving," Labor Secretary Elaine Chao told CNN in September. "It's transitioning to a knowledge-based economy." Many liberals are dazzled by the light, imagining a new era in which poverty is curable by education and the highly educated know no limits. Those who go to college and work hard are set for life, while the clueless and the unprepared drift down into the working poor. Message to Americans in a competitive, globalized world: Sink or swim. It's up to you.
But wasted knowledge piles up all around us, along with the blighted lives of people who made "all the right choices," got their degrees and have either lost or never found their footing. There's the Atlanta-based IT marketing expert who has alternated between professional jobs and janitorial work, the laid-off chemical engineer who's spent time in shelters, the 50-ish Minneapolis cab driver who offers his business card along with the receipt because he still harbors some dim hope of returning to a job as a media executive.
It's a largely hidden problem, this quiet erosion of the middle class. While the chronically poor have been highlighted by the living-wage movement, downwardly mobile members of the middle class get short shrift, even from people of conscience. True, the college-educated are a relative elite, constituting 28 percent of the population and earning, on average, a lifetime total of $1 million more than those who lack a degree. But the middle class has been roiled in recent years by what the economists call "income volatility," or sudden changes in fortune, usually caused by layoffs. The discarded shrink off in shame — after all, they must have done something wrong — and vanish from the unemployment statistics by going to Circuit City or Starbucks and taking whatever job they can get. To acknowledge their existence would be to admit that the "knowledge economy" is a delusion and to raise a rude finger in the face of the American dream.
For many, the trouble begins at commencement. Two-thirds of college graduates have borrowed heavily to pay for school, putting them nearly $20,000 in the red, on average. At current interest rates of 6.8 percent for federal student loans, that amounts to a $219 monthly payment for the next 10 years. And those trying to buy more security with an advanced degree accumulate a combined student loan debt averaging a crippling $45,900. Once established in a professional-level job, many college graduates are finding their salaries inadequate to the rising costs of health care, housing and energy, especially as benefits shrink: 21 percent of college graduates now have no health insurance, up from 17 percent five years ago. And in a corporate culture bent on cost-cutting, few are ever really "established." Layoffs — aka downsizings, right-sizings, smart-sizings and riffings — can strike at any time, as 14,000 white-collar Ford workers just discovered. Those who "land" again earn on average 17 percent less than they would have made had they not been laid off. Then once you hit 50, you're officially over the hill and unlikely to find re-employment at a middle-class level. As one middle-aged white-collar worker reported, "You know what they call a 50-year-old person in a large corporation? Fat!"
As Louis Uchitelle emphasizes in his recent book "The Disposable American," this chipping away at the middle class carries a high cost in emotional, as well as financial, pain. The wife of a working teacher describes her family as "scared, desperate, depressed and isolated" because of their financial challenges. A victim of layoffs writes:
100 resumes sent in the last 6 months. No job. Have actually been unemployed for two years. Moved to new state to start over, about to roll over a cliff. To add to my woes, I now doubt my ability to hold a job should I ever get one. I feel like I'm eroding. Once I was extremely adept, flexible, pro-active, etc., etc. Now I feel like sludge.This is the new world of the middle class — haunted by debt, stalked by layoffs, pinched by vanishing pensions and health benefits, and forced into ever more contingent forms of work as "real" jobs give way to benefit-free contract work. Far from being on an elite perch in the "knowledge economy," the middle class hovers just inches above the working poor. Since the average household today has negative savings, meaning positive debt, a sudden job loss for whatever reason can dislodge a family overnight. The downward spiral is accelerated by companies' strange aversion to hiring the unemployed, who have unsightly "gaps" in their résumés. The jobless find themselves stigmatized by their condition, although they did nothing to incur it, as illustrated by the management consultant who advises corporate recruiters to avoid job fairs: "Who goes to job fairs? People without jobs! All you get are worthless résumés and lots of germs."
In fall 2005 a small group of us — writers, activists and union organizers — began to envision a national membership-based organization for college-educated workers. We got seed money from the Service Employees International Union, but we weren't building a union or even a part of one. Union membership is based on occupation and workplace, while we wanted an organization that could embrace people through bouts of unemployment and even changes of occupation — from marketer to janitor, for example. One model was the AARP, which offers services and advocacy to millions without regard to occupational status, only we aimed to be noisier and more grass-rooted. We spent much of this year recruiting organizers around the country and in September launched United Professionals — America's first broad-based organization for the white-collar unemployed, underemployed and anxiously employed.
What we do will depend in part on the priorities of our growing membership. But our agenda so far includes:
We see UP as part of the broader movement for economic justice in America and a vital partner to ongoing crusades for a living wage and adequate benefits for the working poor. By focusing on the troubled middle class, we help make the point that poverty, far from being a matter of "bad choices" or character flaws, can happen to any of us. But the educated middle class has a special role to play: It's the core of any modern society, something the chronically poor can aspire to become part of. Without a viable middle class, we become a society ever more divided between the gated communities, on the one hand, and the trailer parks and tenements, on the other.
You are invited to go to unitedprofessionals.org and join us. The dues are low — a dime a day or $36.50 a year — and the time investment as big or small as you have to offer. Right now, we need not only your dues but your skills — legal, organizational, Internet, writing, marketing, public speaking. If you're tired of watching your debts rise and your benefits and opportunities dwindle, join us in building UP and fighting back.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Investigative TV journalism at its best
Interview with David Smorgon
Reporter Ticky Fullerton interviews David Smorgon, the President of the Western Bulldogs Football Club.
David Smorgon, what sort of a game have we got going on behind you now?
Oh very interesting game. Very competitive game. It's our intra club game and this is the build up for next Sunday week's first game against Adelaide that we're playing at Colonial Stadium. So out there today there'd probably be about twenty guys going for about ten spots in the senior team so today is a chance, the last chance to show the coaches what you've got and I think the format there today will determine the final line up.
There's this line "tribalism" that gets thrown around about AFL, what do the Bulldogs and their fans identify with?
Bulldogs. Bulldogs, that's what we identify with. People say we sometimes look like bulldogs. We play like bulldogs, we act like bulldogs. So what's a bulldog? Bulldogs I think are tenacious, we are relentless, we never give up and you're always in there barking. Now sometimes we don't bark loud enough and other times we criticise the barking the too loud but I think it's a tenacity. I think it is a persistence and I think it is a spirit here that you're always striving to do better and you've got a few hurdles to jump to be there.
Given your financial situation at the moment is is that a good character to adopt as well?
Well we need it. I think if there wasn't tenacity and persistence and a lot of those bulldog values then maybe I wouldn't be sitting here and the club wouldn't be around and I think that would be a fair assessment over many years of the Bulldogs and you could go back probably twenty years, thirty years maybe.
You had a very tough year last year, a loss of $1.7 million dollars. What caused it?
Oh look a number of things. Obviously when a loss of that magnitude, it comes back to management. I mean management can't escape the financial results good bad or indifferent. We had some severe problems with our membership. We had a downturn in our corporate sponsorship. We had problems with our Colonial Stadium agreement and it doesn't take much for a club like us that that lives on the edge and a couple of things don't happen and all of a sudden you're nearly down and out and so last year we had a combination of three or four things that really hurt us and it's hard for a club like ours to recover.
Colonial hit hit you by what six hundred thousand or something?
Well based on our forecast probably in excess, a little bit in excess of that. We've had this ongoing dispute in terms of the interpretation of the original agreement. That fortunately has now been sorted out and we're now moving on but that hurt us for the last two years, yes.
The AFL has announced the financial assistance package over and above Waverly now my understanding is that certainly the big five had had that well reported lunch in October and they were concerned about throwing good money over bad and subsidising the weak clubs.
If you ask me am I surprised why anybody would be concerned about throwing good money after bad no I'm not surprised. I can only go on what I heard at two meetings where the AFL Presidents were all involved. I specifically remember one as to why the Bulldogs needed the special grant of up to one million dollars and I also received unanimous support for our club. If people then go away and think it again and want to rethink it well I haven't heard of that other than what I've read. I've heard of this so-called infamous lunch but look it's not surprising where Presidents of different clubs get together. We have different relationships with each other and if five of them get together and have lunch well that doesn't phase me because I've had lunched with five other Presidents or three other Presidents so that's part of the scene so I don't want to read too much into this so-called lunch.
Everybody talks about equalisation and and a leving, level playing field, to what extent and where is this not a level playing field because you seem to have some clubs who no matter what they do they have difficulty making money.
Well you've never seen the Bulldogs, the Kangaroos or St Kilda to use three clubs play on Anzac Day or play on the Queens Birthday. Just give us an opportunity to play there but we as a club don't want that because we don't think that's in the best interests of the whole AFL National Competition. I love to see 85,000 people at an AFL club game whether that be the start of the year or Anzac Day or Queens Birthday but when you look at the dollars that the people pay to come and watch those clubs play on those big grounds, that's where it needs to be a little bit more equalised than what it is today so there is positive discrimination within the AFL and there are, is an equalisation policy that goes to some degree of fixing it but it's still fundamentally flawed and it... won't enable the smaller clubs to compete over a longer period of time with larger clubs.
What of other membership, what is it now at the Bulldogs and what do you need to get back in the black do you think?
What is it now? About twelve thousand, today we've got our final practise game and on Sunday we have a family day where hopefully based on last year's experience we should take two to three thousand of memberships on that day so hopefully that could get us to fourteen, fifteen thousand before the start of the season. What do we need? Probably double that. We really need thirty thousand. The maximum we've ever got is just a touch over twenty and it's a constant battle and we have to just improve our communications. We just have to keep getting our message out there but we've got a lot of doubting promises. You've got a lot of people that are sitting on that fence. If they don't think you're going to get in the finals, they don't want to buy a membership, we can't afford to have another funeral of our club to let our real supporters then come out and say oh yes you're down and out I'll put in. What we have to change is the attitude and we've been working very hard to change that attitude. We need you when you're here. e need you while we're surviving and alive not wait until we're almost down and out.
I think that's what one of your players said yesterday on the Footy Show, he was saying, you know if you don't get increased membership there wont be a club next year.
Look the only thing that will lead to the closure of the Western Bulldogs Football Club is the apathy of the people that follow it. It won't be through the lack of AFL support. It won't be the lack of support from fifteen other clubs and to their credit they've supported the Bulldogs to the hilt. It is up to our club and I as the President, we as the Board and the management team led by our CEO we have to be out there but if the people that follow the Bulldogs are apathetic and they don't care then inevitably we can end up the same as Fitzroy because what led to the destruction of that club, the closure of that club was the fact that in 1996 they had six or seven thousand members when everyone else had thirteen, fourteen thousand. You simply can't have half the number of members than your competition.
Tell me a bit about your demographic. Would you like a Vietnamese player?
I'd think we'd play a Vietnamese player over the odds to get someone here because if that might help get thousands of Vietnamese supporters at the club that would be a a great result. Look we've tried a few initiatives with the Vietnamese community. We have ongoing discussions but it really hasn't led to anything. There is not an understanding or a willingness at the moment by the community to to want to grab hold of the Western ah the AFL Football. I mean we're the ideal club you know we've got a large number of Vietnamese living in the area within a punt kick from from the Whitton Oval but we haven't yet succeeded in getting involved in the club.
Am I right in saying that your merchandising take last year was as low as four thousand dollars?
Oh I think that that's the net result, I think we probably solved close on a hundred thousand dollars worth of merchandise. The costs of doing that were high but again that's really a result of of low membership and you know I don't think it's a reflection on the quality of the merchandise or the price of the merchandise. It was more the fact that we don't have enough people wanting to buy it.
Corporate sponsorship, you've begun the year without a major sponsor. How hard is that when you look at Collingwood and Eddie McGuire?
Well the irony of that is that Eddie called me a couple of weeks ago and actually gave me a couple of names of sponsors that were leaving Collingwood because he had a better deal. Now that says a lot about Eddie and I appreciate Eddie's call but it also says a lot about the the corporate support of various clubs and Collingwood have got Eddie and Eddie draws people and Eddie draws people watching television and that's what companies want. We don't have Eddie, we don't have that profile so it's very difficult. It's been very difficult. It's been also very frustrating I can tell you ever since our major sponsor from pervious year, last year left us you know we've probably spoken to nearly eighty companies and we haven't yet cracked it. I can tell you that I'm highly confident that before the first game we'll have a premier partner as compared to a major sponsor, but a premier partner and that will underpin the sponsorship dollars for the Bulldogs for 2002.
Can you give us a feel for what tonight's about?
Tonight is one of our coterie groups. The longest standing coterie groups of the Bulldogs, the Westerners, they're coming along to the pre season launch, I'm disappointed. I think there's only about thirty Westerners with their partners coming along which is a sharp decrease from last year and I want to understand why? What have we, what have we done wrong? Or what more are they looking for so it will be an interesting evening but it's an opportunity to hear from them. We've got Terry Wallace the coach talking, Chris Grant the Captains there and I'm there so we brought in the big guns for them but unfortunately there are not enough people to talk to.
How many clubs do you think are struggling at the moment?
Oh I think from what I know there'd be certainly three clubs that are doing it very tough financially. That probably would be all in the special assistance group ah the AFL have created and there's probably another three or four clubs that if things don't go right for them in the first few games of the year and their membership and corporate support suffer, they also could be in that category but it's very difficult, one shouldn't guess about these things but clearly there's four or five clubs that are doing it tough.
Are there sugar daddies around for clubs?
No I don't believe there are any more sugar daddies around in the sense if you're talking about a major backer that just wants to put dollars in and not get any value out. People are very commercial today. Most people want value for money and we're seeing that at the highest level all the way down to the, to the local member and you've got a lot of generous people that support the club. I mean the Bulldogs have two or three people that put in dollars financially but they wont inevitably save the club. They will assist the club but they can't save the club. It's gone beyond that.
Let me just talk briefly about the Chris Grant affair which was resolved yesterday, do you...
Well I think you should be careful. It wasn't a Chris Grant affair. It was a Chris Grant neck problem!
It was resolved and Chris Grant came out fairly candidly about his frustration at the AFL's handling of it. Do you support that frustration?
Oh yes undoubtedly and I fully supported Chris. Look there are a lot of things that were said yesterday at the press conference that weren't in the papers today. Chris Grant has been exemplary over the last six weeks. His sheer commitment, determination and persistence to make sure the right decision was made for the right reasons was absolutely fundamental to him achieving the the required result yesterday and we as a club have supported him side by side from the first time we knew about it. The difference was that publicly I've been able to speak about it and if you look back through the records over the early weeks we were critical of the AFL on a number of fronts. We had to resort to lawyers to obtain documents to understand what was going on. Chris has not said one word until yesterday's press conference and he had a lot to get off his chest and I think if the result of this was if there was another Chris Grant club situation I've got no doubt the AFL would do it better, they would do it more efficiently and a better result.
If they'd done it first time around with a Carlton or a Collingwood do you think they'd have handled it in such a drawn out way?
I don't believe so. I mean people have accused us of soft peddling this because of the financial assistance and I can tell you I saw Andrew Dimitri and Wayne Jackson on the first day when we heard about this and I went to them and I deliberately carefully said I'm not going to muddy the waters here. I know we've asked for and received financial assistance on the one hand that will have no influence at all about how we handle the Chris Grant situation and I put that on the table and it's a question of how one wants to go about it. We ended up winning the war yesterday. That was a great victory. A monumental day for the Bulldogs because it's given us a lot of spirit and I just hope that our supporters out there can take a lot of heart from the way that Chris handled himself and the club supported him to achieve a major victory. Five weeks ago most people would have said Chris Grant will never play a league football again. We knew different but we had to contend with a complex medical and is, and legal issue that needed sorting out and those things take time. You're dealing with someone's own health issues and Chris is a private person. He hated this being bandied around in the media but AFL Football being what it is it was inevitable that there would be a lot leakages and a lot of stories out.
You said you didn't you made it clear to the AFL that you didn't want to muddy the waters between financial assistance and decisions being made by the AFL?
Do you think they muddied the waters?
Oh I don't think so. I think that they had acknowledged that they could have done things a lot better. Andrew Demitriou said that this morning and I think from our perspective I would say to you that we as a club would not have handled it any differently even if we lent the AFL some money as compared to borrowing some money from them.
I ask this because you've now successfully put together a three year plan, many of the Club Presidents have pointed out that you know you've done that and done it well. You've now got financial assistance I think of what nine hundred thousand is it?
Nine hundred thousand.
Now what does the AFL ask for in return?
The same thing as what we want. We want to turn that plan into a credible believable plan. It's one thing to have things in writing. What we've now got to do is go and implement it and the biggest opportunity we have, probably the last opportunity we have is to go to the Western region, our backyard which is the best backyard of any AFL club in Melbourne and ask for their support. We need their support for community involvement. We need their support in buying memberships for their staff, for their suppliers, for their customers or for the kids that are attending the local schools who's parents unfortunately can't afford membership. We need to involve it. We're having a major breakfast on April the 16th where we're going to get big business names and the Government behind us to encourage these business to involve themselves. If we can do that we will break the back of the Western Bulldogs financial plight. If we don't then we're going to continue to struggle.
I see John Elliott was in your backyard the other day.
John Elliott can come as many times as he likes. There's a lot of non smoking areas in the Western region so he wont be here for long.
Have you heard about these so called Corporate doctors that the AFL might put in?
Oh I'm well aware of corporate doctors from a number of points of view.
How do you feel about having corporate doctors?
I look forward to it. I think it's a good idea. I always believe you can do a better deal and get a better understanding with people that are expert in their field, that know what they're doing. Give me an idiot and I'll always have problems. Give me someone that's sensible, practical, that's been there and one it and we can deal with it. We're not worried about any corporate doctor or any business adviser the AFL want to put in with the Western Bulldogs.
Are you wary of acceding any control to the AFL as a result of financial assistance?
No none whatsoever. We had to agree to that when we asked for the loan. They've got the right to come to a board meeting if they want to. We've never seen them. We're open. We're transparent. We don't have anything to hide. We're on the same side. We're actually trying to kick the same goals together. Now we've got to do it our way and we've got to deliver. It's as simple as that and full marks to the AFL and the other clubs for being supportive of a club like the Western Bulldogs. I would not be sitting here today if we didn't get the loan money that we needed from the AFL three months ago.
Is this a sixteen club game going forward?
I hope it is. I think the football public want it to be a sixteen club game. I think the football public certainly in Victoria want ten clubs in Victoria. I think the competition has never been as successful, it's never been as healthy and I think if you start reducing clubs you're going to destroy the fabric of the game and I don't think any one of us want to see that.
Do you think the AFL believe that?
I think the AFL is committed to sixteen clubs in the competition however if clubs can't pay their own bills after receiving some assistance over the AFL inevitably there will be a point of time where they say well I'm sorry you can't make it. If you can't make it on your own then there's no place for you.
In your financial plan at the end of those three years, where do you hope to be?
We want to be independent of any AFL assistance. We want to be able to at least break even so that we can pay our bills and have our nose in front. We don't have to make huge profits but we have to be able to pay our own bills with our own money.
Do you think that's achievable looking at sponsorship?
Definitely achievable. It is definitely achievable but we need the support. If David Smorgon and the Board and our management are going to keep on saying the same message and we're not getting a response then unfortunately we wont achieve what we aim to do.
Just going back to the Chris Grant announcement yesterday, were you surprised to see Eddie McGuire without his Collingwood President hat on?
Yes it's the first experience I've had when Eddie walked into a press conference. There probably would have been seventy or eighty journalists there and I got a bit of a shock sitting up the front and saw Eddie there. I thought what the hell is he doing here and I got a bigger shock when he asked me a very leading question. I think it went along the lines, well David, I can't ask Chris Grant this question but who was it that leaked the story from the AFL? It was a pretty provocative question coming from Eddie and I can't exactly tell you what I said and then he asked another question and I think answered that matter of factly...
Why do you think he did it?
Oh I think Eddie's a journalist. Eddie loves it but I could see the reaction of Eddie after, he liked being maybe the senior spokesman amongst all the journos�
But this is club sparring as well isn't it?
But I didn't mind that. I there was, Eddie was here as a journo, he wasn't here as wearing his Collingwood Footy Club hat, I think he had a bit of inside information is what he was talking about but that's Eddie. He'd done his homework so I think Eddie's been great for AFL Football.
Does footy matter like it use to?
Definitely, definitely. Go and ask the fans. Go and ask the ever increasing number of fans that come to games or watch it on television. AFL Football has a lot of appeal about it. I think it's got appeal that no other sport can offer but I'm biased. I mean I love it. I love it to the detriment of every other sport. It's been a complete passion and commitment from me for the last what five years now wearing the hat that I wear and it's tough. It's not an easy job, in fact it's a bloody hard job but you do it because you love the club and I come out here today on a Friday afternoon to watch an inter club and it gives me a buzz just watching our players going out there. It gives me a buzz to see some of our youngsters getting a kick or two against some senior players and then you come back to tonight and you've got the corporate backers and the members coming along and you've got to fire them up and say a few works that take them into the inner sanctum of the club so to speak and then tomorrow I think I've got an off day but Sunday you're back here for family day and another set of people that are coming along and you know when the old ladies and the young girls and the kids come and say Smorgo thanks for the job you're doing, thanks for doing, you know helping the club along, it just makes me feel good and you don't do it for that sort of thing but it's a nice little attachment that you wouldn't even think about but when it happens it's actually nice.
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Arugula Salad with Caramelized Endive and Fennel
Roasting endive and fennel calms the vegetables' slightly bitter flavor. Along with sweet blood oranges and dried figs, they combine well with the peppery arugula in this salad; mustard vinaigrette is tossed in.
- Servings: 4
Source: Martha Stewart Living, October 2005
- 1 bulb fennel, trimmed and cut into 8 to 12 wedges
- 2 Belgian endives, each cut lengthwise into 6 wedges
- 3 sprigs fresh rosemary
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
- 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 5 dried Black Mission figs, quartered
- 2 blood oranges, peeled and segmented
- 8 cups baby arugula, about 5 ounces
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Toss fennel, endives, rosemary, 2 tablespoons oil, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in a large bowl. Spread mixture in a single layer on a rimmed baking sheet. Roast, tossing occasionally, until fennel and endives are well browned, about 35 minutes. Discard rosemary.
Transfer fennel mixture to a large serving bowl. Add vinegar, mustard, remaining tablespoon oil, the figs, and orange segments. Toss well to combine. Let cool to room temperature.
Just before serving, toss fennel mixture with the arugula. Season with salt and pepper, if desired.


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Occupied Forever Gameplay 1 iOS / Android
Occupied Forever
By: Christian Zangl
Genre: Arcade
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Let's play Occupied Forever! This is part 1 of my walkthrough guide for the iOS game, Occupied Forever by Christian Zangl.
I will update this post with more tips and tricks, so please bookmark this page and keep on checking in!
If you have any questions, feel free to ask for extra help in the comments section.
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New Bicycle Laws for Houston? Take Our Quiz!
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In a long-overdue move, the City of Houston has passed an ordinance intended to make the roads safer for bicyclists and other non-car users of the road.
How enforceable it is, we'll find out. Until then, it's important to arm yourself with KNOWLEDGE!!, and the best way to do it is by taking our six-question quiz on the subject. Get those No. 2 pencils sharpened, and no cheating!
6) Drivers have to stay at least three feet away from bicyclists. This makes the relationship between drivers and bicyclists the equivalent of the relationship between:
a) J-Lo's personal assistants and J-Lo b) Strip-club patrons and strippers, supposedly c) An Astro's bat and an incoming pitch d) A driver going 75 mph on an amazingly traffic-free Southwest Freeway and the car in front of him.
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4) The law defines a "vulnerable driver" thusly:
walkers or runners; the physically disabled, such as someone in a wheelchair; a stranded motorist or passengers; highway construction, utility or maintenance workers; tow truck operators; cyclists; moped, motor-driven cycle and scooter drivers; or horseback riders.
After reading this list, most Houstonians say:
a) "For the love of Pete, who's not vulnerable?" b) "What about that dancing guy on Waugh & Allen Parkway?" c) "Or Aqualung in Montrose?" d) "Horseback riders"? Really? What is this, Mayberry?
3) Before this passed, Houston was the only major city in Texas without:
a) A baseball team that could consistently win against Triple-A teams b) a "safe-passing law" c) Decent pizza d) An intense jealousy of Houston.
2) The law says a driver "may not throw any object or substance at or against the vulnerable road user." What loopholes will Houston drivers find?
a) "At" or "against" -- doesn't say nothing about "on." b) What if you were throwing your object or substance towards something right behind the VD (vulnerable driver) and the VD just happened to get in the way? c) I don't see anything about spitting!!! d) Can you throw something at his bike? Like, right between the spokes?
1) What key part of a solid bicycling ordinance is missing from the new law?
a) "Those low-to-the-ground recumbent bikes are barred on grounds of excessive nerdery" b) "If a bicyclist cannot attach his bike to a Metro bus in less than two minutes, he or she is walking." c) "Houston Chronicle columnist Ken Hoffman is hereby barred forever from kvetching about lousy drivers threatening innocent bicyclists. (Oh, and while we're at it, let's add professional wrestling, Paul McCartney and where to get the best pizza in New York and/or Rome)" d) "If a rider's bicycle costs more than a driver's used car, all bets are off."
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Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are reportedly engaged.
Kunis was spotted shopping wearing a diamond ring on that finger, and a source says that she and her Kutcher are indeed planning to make it official.
Kunis and Kutcher have been dating for almost two years.
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Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen on October 9 last year, is undoubtedly a global icon for women's education. However, there are some who think that she doesn't deserve all the praise that she is being given. In fact, these people hate her.
What's worse is that almost all of these 'haters' belong to Pakistan, Malala's homeland.
The 16-year-old teenager has often been associated with several conspiracy theories. Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, is considered to be a CIA agent while others suggest that her family was paid to stage the 'act' and were sent to Britain by the U.S.
Some even think that the girl wasn't shot by terrorists in the first place. According to these people, it was a hoax set up by the U.S. government under the orders of President Barack Obama who happens to be one of Malala's idols as well.
While the brave teenager was being lauded abroad for her activism and efforts to promote education, this is what some people were saying back at home:
These people (quite thankfully) do not constitute a majority of Pakistanis. However, their voices cannot be ignored. A Time magazine article published in July pointed out that the "advances in technology" have contributed in facilitating such conspiracy theories. "Tales no longer travel slowly by word of mouth," it cited.
And that's exactly what has happened in the case of Malala. Hate speech was propagated through various online discussion forums, blogs and social media platform to an extent that it could no longer be disregarded as worthless online blabbering.
Read More: What Will It Mean For Women of Pakistan If Malala Wins Nobel Peace Prize?
What these conspiracy theorists, especially the ones from Pakistan, fail to realize is the fact that by condemning Malala they are condemning someone who brought praise and honor to their country.
How can Pakistanis denounce a figure who can help restore Pakistan's deteriorating image?
Malala represents the determination of Pakistanis that they do not want to live under the threat of terrorism anymore. It's through her the entire world, and not just the U.S., knows that the people of Pakistan reject the idea of extremism and not all of them are bearded and/or burqa clad murderers and potential suicide bombers.
It's because of her that Pakistan is being associated with words like 'education' and 'progress' instead of 'Islamism' and 'Talibanization.'
The upshot: it's not just Malala Yousafzai winning the accolades, it's also Pakistan. Therefore, her representation is essential and very important.


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Tips for successful sales and marketing part 1:
Increase sales conversions by improving response handling in your organisation
Mediahawk has been working with organisations to track their telephone response from advertising since 2002. During this time we have monitored thousands of campaigns and helped various organisations improve their telephone effectiveness and increase sales as a result. By using call tracking to monitor marketing calls, problems can be identified and sales will improve. There is no point in spending thousands of pounds on advertising campaigns to generate sales calls if the conversion is not managed effectively. In this article, we look at how to put in place some simple processes to improve telephone sales effectiveness by streamlining the flow of enquiries and increasing the efficiency of the sales team.
Easy steps to improving sales conversions
- Review inbound sales call statistics to identify response issues
- Reduce the amount of missed calls by setting up diverts
- Review the use of IVR's
- Listen to calls to be aware of the customer journey
- Ensure messages are taken and followed up promptly
- Prepare staff for any likely increase in call volumes
The Customer Journey
When a company decides to implement telephone tracking, they instantly get an insight into how a customer interacts with their business. For many purchases, customers will ring before they buy a product and therefore the first stage of improving sales is to review the process of how calls reach the sales team. One of the key benefits of using call tracking numbers is being able to monitor the number of calls made into an organisation. In addition, call tracking will demonstrate how many calls are being missed because they ring out or are engaged. If you are looking at improving sales conversions, the first step is to understand the customer journey and whether there are problems with getting calls through to the sales team.
Calls can be lost for the following reasons:
- Callers being placed on hold for long periods
- Callers being diverted to different departments
- Callers receiving an engaged tone
Using a trackable telephone number to monitor inbound sales enquiries would help to alleviate these issues as any missed calls would be tracked and identified through online reporting. Also, the calls could be recorded to allow the organisation to listen to a customer's journey from dialling your number to eventually speaking to a sales person.
Organisations often miss calls due to poor telephone infrastructure. For instance, if a receptionist cannot pick up a call does the phone ring out or is it diverted to another department, eventually reaching a voicemail? According to statistics, 65% of callers will not leave a message on voicemail. If this caller has just visited your website and decided to call you, they are unlikely to leave a message as telephone callers from websites are often ready to buy. By not addressing your telephone response handling issues you are cutting your conversions by half. Define a process for receiving sales calls and set up diverts if necessary. Review this process at least once a week to check it is still working using a call tracking number, call recording and online reporting.
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Another area that stops sales calls getting through to companies is the introduction of the IVR (interactive voice response) which allows customers to press buttons to put them through to different departments. The problem with IVRs is that, whilst they can be very useful when dealing with large volumes of traffic, in certain markets they can put customers off. We have examples of some companies that find that they lose up to 50% of their calls when a customer comes to an IVR. We believe that IVRs are extremely beneficial when implemented correctly, but their power and disadvantages need to be understood; especially when dealing with customer enquiries. If a company uses an IVR when they do not have large volumes of calls, we recommend making sure they come into effect after a certain period of rings, thus allowing for a human voice to answer the phone. Customers like to talk to human beings so give them the chance to do this before you automate the call handling. It can give the impression that you don't want their call so use in extreme cases only.
Call Recording
If call recording is used with a trackable number then a customer's telephone journey can be listened to to understand how long it takes to get through to a salesperson. Often, when a call is listed as being long in duration, it can mean that the caller was left on hold for long periods. If there are insufficient sales people to answer the telephone then a process should be put in place to minimise customer inconvenience, making sure they are contacted if they do leave a message. By going back over every sales call, the organisation can listen to the journey that customer made to get to a sales person. At this point the organisation can address the issue of telephone handling and begin to improve the conversions from telephone leads.
Call tracking numbers with call recording allows companies to understand and review their customer squeeze points and implement steps that minimise their impact. The more squeeze points can be minimised, the easier it is for a customer to get through to the sales team. However, the importance of removing the squeeze points needs to be seen in the context of the market in which a company operates. Where a product is low value and talking to a customer costs money then there may be a justifiable strategy to increase the squeeze points and minimise human interaction by trying to get customers to purchase online. However, if this strategy is to be adopted, then it should be done with the confidence that you are purposefully trying to dissuade customer from talking to you and can expect negative customer criticism – the airline industry is a perfect example of this strategy.
In this article, we have tried to show that by understanding the customer telephone journey using call tracking, it is possible to identify squeeze points that deter and stop vital customer interaction. Whilst this may be a stated strategy, for many companies this is not a laudable aim and the object is to simplify the process to ensure enquiries come through as quickly and effectively as possible. It is not difficult to monitor sales calls and if you implement the tips suggested, you will definitely improve your conversion rates.
To find out more about our call tracking solutions, please get in touch.
Watch out for part 2 in this series:
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Last year we decided to take the Lagoon 39 to the people via a series of shows and invitational weekends. The tour took us from Brighton to Falmouth with many stops along the way. The reception we received was phenomenal, and for this reason we are definitely repeating the exercise this summer. The 39 is probably one of the easiest boats to sail in production today. With the tall rig, short boom and all controls accessible from the cockpit, it is certainly worth stepping on board to see for yourself. Keep an eye on our events listing to see when this great piece of design is going to be berthing at a location near you.
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I've heard and seen some people use paint brushes to "paint" on royal icing. Any suggestions on which ones work best without losing any bristles?
i not sure what brand you have available but my suggestion is if it's really cheap with thickish rough bristles it is not very good quality, and if u spend a bit more money on one then it is less likely the bristles will fall out. I have one that i bought which has thinner softer white bristles for about AUS $6 from my decorating store and it has been fine. That's just my observation, sorry thats all i can add to help lol
I think this is the set I bought at Michael's (on sale for about $5) -- they are by the painting items rather than the craft items. It seems like a great deal. I haven't had any issues with shedding bristles -- the only thing to be aware of is not to let the wood handles soak in water any more than necessary or the varnish may peel. When/if that happens, I just lightly sanded them with a fine sanding pad thingy and they are good to go. I wanted a bunch of brushes because I like to decorate with a group of nieces and we needed enough to go around.
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Symplegades RT @georgezachary Larry Page's business card from 1998 http://bit.ly/anqvok -> Wow, back in the days when Yahoo was an Internet darling!
Symplegades Wow, cue "Right Now" (Van Halen)! RT @steverubel @piercedavid: http://post.ly/H0T0 20 things that happen every minute:
Symplegades Listening to a Pearl Jam favorite. Still amazed to see them in a Target commercial. Definitely a changing image from earlier days!
Symplegades "Ebony & 'My Dell Mini' live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard ..." #adoptamini
Symplegades Definitely in a "New York State of Mind" visiting family, friends & my old stomping grounds in NY - so a little Billy Joel is appropriate.
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Symplegades #FollowFriday musical "tweet tweet" for the entire @twitter community: "Rockin' Robin" (original Bobby Day version from 1957). Have a good weekend!
Symplegades Okay - how about some classic Aerosmith to kick off the day & weekend! "Going Down/ Love in an Elevator" Have a good one all!
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Symplegades 3 words, 1 great movie: The Big Chill -- and "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" by The Temptations. Good stuff!
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Symplegades "Right Now" I'm enjoying great tunes by Van Halen, thinking about the many things on my to-do list and looking forward to succeeding at all of them.
Symplegades So many great songs representing different times. Interstate Love Song by Stone Temple Pilots: great tune, good days. Looking forward 2 Summer 2009!
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Symplegades Memorial Day weekend ... "All Summer Long" by Kid Rock sounds about right. Please remember those that lost their lives 2 protect others-like u & me! (reblip)
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Symplegades Maybe we need a huge "feel good" concert across the country to get people pumped up & moving forward! "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A" John Cougar Mellencamp
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Symplegades Looking for some inspiration to work to as the caffeine/coffee isn't doing it right now ... hmmm - music! Pearl Jam – Daughter
Symplegades Cue the music ... || RT @eLuminater @AnnCurry Today was the last time humans are scheduled to touch the Hubble Space Telescope.
Symplegades Kissed Jen goodnight, then went to make sure Jonathan & Andrew were all tucked in - and thought to myself, "What A Wonderful World"-Louie Armstrong.
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My Reaction To ABC's New Drama "Black Box," As A Person With A Bipolar Loved One
Leading up to last week's pilot episode of "Black Box" on ABC, I'd seen a bunch of previews for the drama centered around Dr. Catherine Black, a talented neuroscientist harboring a secret diagnosis of her own. The series premiere aired right after "Grey's Anatomy," which I had been watching, so I decided to give it a whirl.
Big mistake.
Commercials for the show revealed that Catherine struggles from and conceals a serious mental disorder, which we soon learn is bipolar disorder, or manic depression. As a woman with a sibling who is bipolar, I was automatically intrigued and hoping that maybe, despite all of the research I've done on manic depression and living through personal experience, the show would help me to understand more about what it's like to live life with bipolar disorder. While my sister is currently stable and on medication, I've been there during many of her terrible manic depressive episodes. I'm all too familiar with the rage, hallucinations, uncontrollable sobbing, violence and nearly-successful suicide attempts. Thankfully, my sister's multiple attempts at swallowing bottles of pills and jumping off of the roof of our house were unsuccessful, but the effects of her doing so are long-lasting and traumatic for those who've had to watch a loved one suffer so badly. While I have no idea what it's like to live with a disorder that dislocates you from reality, bringing a usually happy person into deep dark depths of despair at the drop of a dime, I have dealt with it secondhand and it's awful. I had that in the back of my mind as I watched.
On "Black Box," Catherine lives by a personal "non-compliance" philosophy. She believes that some of the world's greatest minds (Vincent Van Gogh, Sylvia Plath and Ernest Hemingway to name a few), whom all happened to have various mental illnesses, did their best work when they were in the midst of their manic states. Their genius reached full potential when there was no medication dulling their elaborate, mind-freeing hallucinations, which ultimately led to beautiful works of art. And while most of those great minds accomplished legendary things, it was the same illnesses that contributed to their out-of-the-box thinking that also led to their eventual suicides. With that said, Catherine feels most brilliant diagnosing and curing mental illnesses and brain disorders when she's off jer meds. So, naturally, we watch her intentionally dump her pills down the toilet and unravel. And when Catherine unraveled, so did I.
We watched this brilliant, seemingly normal woman flip a switch and enter an exaggerated, yet still frightening fantasy world where she twirled around, viscously jotted notes down on her arms, undressed the first man she saw and nearly killed herself when she thought she was flying over the city— in reality, she was dancing on the ledge of her hotel balcony. While I watched, I had flashbacks of my sister's manic episodes, which still linger in the back of my mind, returning in the form of nightmares every single time my sister's bipolar disorder rears its ugly head. Even when my sister is at her healthiest, I live in fear that one day the illness will become too intense and we'll lose her in some terrible, tragic way without any way of helping. After Catherine exits her incredibly disturbing manic state, she returns to "normalcy," continuing to lie to everyone in her life about her illness and forgoing medication with the fear of becoming "mediocre." She makes all of these conscious, terrible decisions despite having watched her own mother commit suicide from the same disorder when she was a child. I felt suffocated. Uncomfortable.
At this point in the episode, I had such a terrible gut reaction that I needed to turn the show off. Dealing with a loved one who's enduring such an illness takes a toll on everyone around them. Oftentimes, they will say or do things in their out-of-mind, out-of-body experience that can scar their friends and family for years, similar to post-traumatic stress. Watching this woman's manic episode brought me to that point. It was a difficult thing to watch, and an even more difficult thing to try and comprehend actually happening to someone that you love. But worst of all, at no time during the show did any characters say anything of value or comfort about the stigma of mental illness. Instead, I felt it almost read as a promotion for medicinal non-compliance. Don't take your meds and you can achieve greatness! I don't think so.
While the premise of the show is certainly interesting and Catherine's character is compelling to watch, to anyone who's dealt with bipolar disorder first or second-hand, I would avoid "Black Box." Perhaps my visceral reaction is a testament to the show's power and truth. Maybe ABC is achieving exactly what they hope to achieve by giving viewers an inside look at the struggles of mental illness. But as those of us who already deal with mental illness know, sometimes reliving the pain is the worst part. I'll be skipping this one.


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Suzuki Motor on Monday tripled its net profit forecast for the financial year to 31 March 2010 to JPY15bn from an earlier projected JPY5bn on cost-cutting efforts, although the new figure represents a year on year fall of 45.3%.
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