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Title: Just Wait For It
Author: Seperis
Fandom: Merlin/Smallville
Codes: Merlin, Arthur, Clark Kent, Lex Luthor, Arthur/Lex Luthor, Merlin/Athur
Rating: R
Spoilers: None specific
Summary: What the fuck, Merlin thought in utter shock, staring at Uther--Uther--across a rich mahogany desk in rural Suffolk, fate was like a bad Hollywood remake, then?
Author Notes: To svmadelyn, winterlive and shinetheway who were heckling me while I was writing this. And possibly transtempts? Though she might have just been laughing. The original title was "I am so ashamed of myself". You see why I was sitting on this one in horror.
Warnings: Drug use
aelora THIS IS TO SHOW MY LOVE AND WORSHIP PLZ GIVE ME MORE HOLLOW HEROES PLZ.
Shame is for those not suffering from withdrawal.
Merlin pulls his collar up against the slow, inevitable grey drizzle of rain that seems to make its appearance at exactly the moment he walks outside. Staring up at the sky, Merlin thinks fate is a sick, sick bitch.
It's the third club he's searched tonight, a mess of noise and bewildering lights and underdressed bodies that no matter how far Merlin's come from floor length skirts and flowing cloaks, never cease to make him blush. Reaching up, Merlin wipes away the sticky imprint of lipstick from a girl that was his junior by an order of magnitude, golden-blonde hair and cheekbones like razors beneath tanned skin that froze him for endless seconds before he managed to pull himself away.
Stepping off the sidewalk, Merlin's wet to the ankle as his sneaker sinks into a puddle, and this, this is the fucking limit . "Kent, get your pansy arse down here!" Merlin yells in the general direction of LuthorCorp, where the bastard subtly perches with the transparent excuse that the view is so much better , like Merlin doesn't know he's warm and dry beneath an overhang of roof while Merlin gets molested by someone who could be his more-greats-than-he-can-count granddaughter.
After a while, there's a small shape just visible against the sky, lazing down toward the ground. In horror, Merlin realizes he has an umbrella . Eyes narrowing, Merlin watches the clouds, waiting for the build of static to be…just…right….
"Merlin !" Kent shouts, and Merlin take a second to enjoy the bright outline of Clark Kent glowing in the sky like a particularly obnoxious omen before he tumbles head first toward the asphalt, burning umbrella trailing behind him like the tail of a particularly unfortunate comet. Shoving his hands in his pockets, Merlin follows the smoke trail three streets to a pleasingly disgusting alley and finds Kent climbing out of a dumpster, sooty and a great deal less dry, with banana peels clinging to his hair.
"What the hell was that?" Kent hisses. Merlin's pleased to see that his jeans are smoking. "I thought I saw them!"
Merlin's eyes narrow. "That's what you said before you sent me into that opium den of a nightclub three hours ago."
Kent lifts his chin. "Just stop, okay? I want to find them as much as you do."
"Oh, really? Is your king being molested by a pedophilic bald sociopath--"
"Lex isn't a sociopath!" Clark's face turns bright red. "And your Arthur's hardly a blushing virgin, or did you miss your charge's lack of underwear--"
"God," Merlin wails. "Americans. You're--you're debauched that's what you are, and Arthur would never do such a thing if that filthy tosser hadn't plied him with drink and--"
"Oh what the fuck ever, who was the one throwing himself at Lex like a five dollar hoo--"
"I will strike you dead, I swear by every god that ever existed and some that I've just made upif you finish that sentence."
Clark stares him down with narrowed eyes. "Bring. It. On."
They stare at each other across a filthy alley, and Merlin thinks, yes, yes, the fates did in fact have a fucked upsense of humor.
A few centuries (try fucking seventeen of them), there'd been a great king, a powerful sorcerer, and a kingdom that fell at their feet. And often, Merlin had thought of the first time he'd met Arthur, a bully with a sword and a smile like the rising of the sun, and he'd wondered if there was ever so inauspicious a beginning for fate.
Well, he'd been wrong. God, so very, very wrong.
"So my son needs a tutor," Uther Penfuckingdragon said (what the fuck, Merlin thought in utter shock, staring at Uther--Uther--across a rich mahogany desk in rural Suffolk, fate was like a bad Hollywood remake, then? Really?). "He has been--remiss in his studies, and Oxford is only a year away."
"Right," Merlin answered in fascination, trying to look serious and not completely freaked out by the fact he thought this conversation sounded rather familiar--
"You saved my son's life," Uther said decisively. Oh God, no. No. "I wouldn't normally trust someone so young, but your references are excellent, and obviously, you think quickly."
Merlin nodded, feeling something very much like hell wrapping around him as Uther continued, "My son is going to America to visit some relatives. Perhaps you could be persuaded to accompany him and continue to--assure his safety?"
Merlin didn't hear manservant, but it was a very close thing.
Which is why he's here now, in this blighted American city with its loose women and its clubs and its disgustingly oversexed Arthur-corrupting billionaires and its irritating, irritating people, and most irritating of all this Clark Kent, some sort of journalist by day and brightly colored idiot come nightfall.
"Don't you think that man is too old for this sort of thing?" Merlin says bitterly, dragging his coat closer over his jumper and staring hatefully at the sky as the rain pounds merrily down. "Up all hours, drinking to excess, corrupting innocent youths--"
Clark makes a disparaging sound.
"--innocent youthswith very little experience--"
"Not from what I've heard," Clark mutters, and Merlin stares into the sky for a second, checking the state of electricity in the air. "Merlin--"
"He runs a global company . I'd think someone with those sorts of responsibilities would have more productive things to do with their time than--than--"
"Teach Arthur the Latin terms for filthy gay sex?"
Merlin stops short, staring at Clark. "I am older than your country. Do not fuck with me."
Clark smiles smugly. "Kryptonian."
"Do you think I care, you pedantic little alien? Your boyfriend--"
"Hey," Clark says defensively, like Merlin had said something that wasn't blindingly obvious , "not my boyfriend--"
"Archenemy, whatever the fuck you people call it these days, he has Arthur , and we have to find them before that tosser does something--"
"There's something Lex hasn't done to him?" Clark looks down at Merlin with bitterly resentful eyes, like it's all Merlin's fault that they're stuck in this untenable position.
"He'd best hope he's done nothing at all."
"God," Arthur says, stretching as they stepped off the Pendragon One (so very Uther, a fleet of private jets emblazoned with dragons, might as well call it the biggest fleet of penis extensions ever; Merlin took to sixties psychology in a very embarrassing way), "we're finally here."
Merlin, struggling under three suitcases and two carry-ons, glares until one of the random group of people that Merlin's finally classified as Arthur's professional friends comes running. Merlin was a servant and years of exposure to Arthur (before this holy hell of a redo; Christ, what the hell?) had taught him exactly the right look to bring lesser mortals to heel. Handing everything off, Merlin holds onto his own satchel and Arthur's bag, following Arthur into the cool airport, swarming with unpleasant people and far, far too much talking.
"Merlin," Arthur says as he opens the crowd like he's parting the ocean, artfully messy blond hair and dark sunglasses, so startlingly beautiful that he takes this sort of thing for granted, the people that stop to stare at him in too-tight shirts that slide up the lean expanse of his stomach and low ride of his jeans on narrow hips, "I'm going to--"
"No, you are not," Merlin says, trying to sound authoritative and not about to cry from sheer exhaustion. The accumulated twenty-two hours on three planes with Arthur and his entourage is a darkness no one should have to face. "We are going to your father's flat and resting."
Arthur turns to look at him, pink lips pursed in an utterly devastating pout. Merlin's immunity is his utter desperation. "Merlin," he starts.
"No. We are going to unpack, you will call your father and assure him that we arrived safely, and then we are resting ," Merlin says, fixing Arthur with a glare he learned from him a hundred lifetimes ago. Arthur doesn't seem particularly impressed, but perhaps it helps to have a sword pointed at someone's throat when you do it. "Arthur--" he starts, and Arthur pauses, pushing down his sunglasses to study Merlin thoughtfully.
"All right," he says, and smiles, white teeth and drop dead gorgeous, fingers sliding across Merlin's hand in a filthy tease as he takes his bag. "I could use some sleep before I go out tonight. I've heard interesting things about Metropolis nightlife."
In the month they've been in the city, Merlin's gotten to know every questionable back-alley and a surprising number of extremely charming ladies who ply their trade on particularly disreputable corners, as well as somehow acquired a small herd of cats who follow him around hopefully, like he has time for a familiar, and good God, he's a wizardand they don't havefamiliars; Merlin blames the American education system for this shocking development.
"Bloody hell," Merlin says, staring at the rotting door stuck in broken stone at the end of such an alley, helpfully pointed at by no less than three young women in very little clothing who don't seem to notice that it's cold and wet and they should really cover up a bit more, all of whom remembered the pretty boy wrapped around the unmistakable Lex Luthor, cooing at his beautiful face and the fact he'd apparently had his shirt viciously stolen from him and appeared to be covered in glitter. "Kent--"
"I know," Kent says, and for once, Merlin sympathizes with him. "So we just--we tell the bouncer--"
Merlin looks at him for a second, and Kent sighs, turning away with a put-upon expression. With a murmured word, the overly large and rather disreputable man finds a budding fascination with his shoelaces, and Merlin and Kent walk by him. The door opens wide with a look, and Merlin stares into the smoky bowels of what could very well be hell. Taking the last breath of fresh air he'll be getting for a while, Merlin forces himself to walk down the claustrophobically narrow hall to the rainbow of insufficient light ahead, music pounding against the soles of his feet and compounding the headache that's been his constant companion since they stepped foot in this horrible country.
The crowd of bodies is almost impossible to separate, moving in rhythm to something drum-heavy and nothing like anything called music shouldbe. The air is thick with smoke and hormones and far, far too much perfume and sweat, and Merlin thinks he may be getting a contact high just standing here.
"You see them?" Kent shouts subtly, like this entire horrifying situationis just too familiar for words to express. Merlin sneezes, trying to search the crowd, then gives up, murmuring a location spell. The pure pale glow is almost overshadowed by the garish lights, but Merlin finds it with a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. "That door," he says, squinting to see where it goes. "The men's bathroom? Why would--"
"Dammit," Kent mutters, grabbing his arm and pulling him into the crowd. Merlin starts to fight, but once inside, he clings to Kent as hands touch him in places that usually require at least a meal and perhaps a name before he permits. "Merlin, maybe you should wait here--"
"Have you gone mad?" Merlin shouts, barely audible over the music. "I'm not leaving him to you." Jerking away has no effect (bloody alien strength), but a spell does the trick, pulling away to stride the few steps separating him from the door and pushing it open, looking around the dim bathroom for--
Oh for the love of Christ, Arthur sprawled casually on a rickety, grey-white sink, head tilted back, hands braced behind him while Luthor finishes unbuttoning his jeans and mouthing one bare shoulder.
"You bloody pervert ," Merlin breathes.
Luthor jerks around, looking past Merlin to stare at Kent, currently in a position of solidarity behind him, not so much as as removing his hand from Arthur's fly. Arthur, however, plants a foot on Luthor's hip and pushes him away, sliding to the floor, staggering slightly, glassy blue eyes looking at Merlin with an expression somewhere between horrified and ecstatic.
"Merlin!" he says, and Merlin watches in fascination as his jeans start to slide down his hips. Darting forward, he grabs for the loose waist, pulling them back up, and Arthur grins, slinging an arm around his neck. "Found me. Want to play again, yeah?"
"Arthur," Merlin starts, trying to think through the feel of Arthur's hips beneath his hands, smooth skin and soft denim. Arthur's cheek brushes his, rough with two days of stubble, mouth red and swollen, arm tightening as he murmurs, "You win," and kisses him, wet and filthy, tasting of alcohol and smoke and Lex fucking Luthor.
Frozen, Merlin's hands tighten on Arthur's jeans, and later he'll blame the bloody contact high for the way he opens his mouth for Arthur's tongue, sucking on it desperately while Arthur pushes his other hand down the back of Merlin's pants, palm hard and hot against his skin.
God, it's been so long, so long, and he's been waiting all his life (all of time and space), for this, for this man, for Arthur…..
When his back hits the wall, however, Merlin forces himself to pull away, almost braining himself on the bare brick. "Arthur, no, you can't--"
Arthur smiles sweetly and ducks his head, mouthing Merlin's throat and murmuring, "Been thinking about this--"
"Arthur ," Merlin says, letting go of one side of Arthur's jeans and locking a hand on his jaw. Glazed blue eyes look into his, and Merlin feels something familiar like homicide rise up inside him. "What did he give you?"
"Nothing," Arthur says, swollen mouth pouting. "Come on, Merlin--"
"What did you--"
"He was like this when I found him," Luthor says from somewhere close enough to kill quick and dirty. Merlin stares at him over Arthur's shoulder, the smug grin and the outline of Arthur's teeth in the pale skin of his throat. "You should take better care of your charge, Merlin. Anything could have happened--"
Clark steps between Merlin and Luthor, arms slightly spread, like the fucker deserves to be defended. "Shut up, Lex."
Luthor rolls his eyes. "Please. What will a math tutor --"
"You have no idea," Merlin says softly, thinking Arthur's jeans buttoned and sliding an arm around his waist. Luthor will have to wait, but he won't wait long, not long at all. "If you come near him again, you won't like the consequences, I promise you that."
"Merlin," Arthur says, frowning against his neck, "don't be such a--"
"Be quiet," Merlin says softly, never looking away from Luthor's mocking smile. "We're leaving."
Luthor grins. "Never did find where he left his car. Not sure cabs come to this part of town. Good luck with that."
Merlin eases Arthur toward the door. "Keep him on a leash, Kent, or I won't be held responsible for the consequences." As they reach the door, Arthur frowns, apparently under the impression there's any room for argument right now. Tightening the arm around him, Merlin locks his other hand around Arthur's jaw, catching the blue eyes. "No. You will come with me now. Do you understand?"
Arthur's head tilts, rebellion dissipating into something that could be called surrender, as if Arthur had ever known the meaning of the word. "All right."
Merlin marches them through the club, noticing the people scurrying desperately from his path. He should worry about that, what he's showing them, but he can't bring himself to care.
Arthur had never been particularly inhibited before, but in this electric world, the careful reserve he'd had as prince and man had been peeled away like cheap varnish. It was sometimes almost impossible to see the man Merlin had known in the glossy teenager who drives far too fast and spends his nights trying his best to drive his father to stroke or murder.
Maybe it's something in living life again, the restrictions that Arthur had been raised to live within finally stripped away, like this second time around has to make up for all the strictness of the first time, for all the pain of how badly it had ended.
When Uther had asked him to watch out for Arthur, there had never been a question of refusal, even if he'd known he'd be the one to pick up Arthur mussed and satiated from London stews and Brussels' bars, stumbling out of hash bars in Amsterdam still tucking himself back into his jeans when Merlin arrived, exhausted and angry and wondering how Uther could have a second chance to be a good father and fuck it up so spectacularly all over again.
Arthur passes out in his lap in the cab, and Merlin runs his hands over him, finding alcohol and a bit of pot but nothing more terrifying. He'll have a bitch of a hangover, which Merlin will let him suffer through, but otherwise, he's unharmed other than the mouth shaped bruises on his shoulder and chest. The flicker of magic that follows he doesn't try to control, washing over the golden skin and erasing the purpling smears as if they'd never been there at all.
Stroking a hand through Arthur's hair, fingers slowly accumulating glitter, Merlin watches Arthur's eyes blink open drowsily. "You're angry."
As perceptive as always. Merlin tightens his hand briefly, enjoying the flash of discomfort that crosses Arthur's face, but Arthur doesn't pull away.
"We'll talk tomorrow about this," Merlin says, trying to temper the anger into something productive; it would be so easy to force the memories that Merlin can sometimes see floating to the surface. The things he shouldn't know, the skills he could not possibly have learned.
Easy, and wrong; right now, though, he's not sure he cares.
"I'm sorry," Arthur says, sincere as if he didn't say this every time, and he may even believe it. Merlin softens his grip, staring out the window, pushing the temptation down once again and wondering how long this can go on.
Arthur closes his eyes beneath the next slow stroke, and Merlin watches his face relax at the touch. "I know."


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vnStat is a lightweight network traffic monitor. It keeps a network traffic log on selectable interfaces. Through the command line the network traffic statistics can be shown.
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Reviewed by Susan Hodges, President, Citizens for Midwifery
Professional documentary filmmakers Ken Schneider and Marcia Jarmel, who are home birth parents themselves, set out to make a film that would stimulate people to rethink their assumptions about childbirth in the US, and in my opinion, they have achieved this goal.
The film includes a home birth practice with a licensed midwife near Seattle, women birthing with CNMs in a freestanding birth center in The Bronx, and labors and births with a female obgyn in a big teaching hospital in Philadelphia. In addition, the women, their families, and the midwives, obgyn and other staff all comment about "what's happening," their experiences, their practices, and related matters. The film is not divided into segments by setting; rather the viewer "travels" among the three settings several times in the course of the film.
"This is the best film on birth in America that I have seen, showing all sides, achieving true balance, and empowering women and families." Marsden Wagner, former Director of Maternal and Child Health, WHO
Because the film shows all the settings and care providers, not just midwife-attended home birth, it presents both what is familiar to mainstream America (doctor-managed hospital birth) as well as the less familiar midwifery settings, with equal "weight" given to each. The genius of the film is in the details; the atmosphere, assumptions, and attitudes are markedly different in the different settings and the juxtapositions enhance the contrasts.
"Born in the USA" is a valuable addition to the birth videos now available. Oriented toward the general public rather than specifically toward pregnant women and families, the video is particularly suited for community and organization program meetings and for high school and university classes (especially women's studies, family and child development, women's health, etc.), while also very appropriate for childbirth education classes. The film can be used in any context where you wish to raise peoples' consciousness about childbirth practices.
I have shown this film to several groups, including a Women's Studies student organization at the local university. I encouraged people to pay attention to body language, touch, how people interacted, and the actual words people used with each other. The film generated lots of discussion and stimulated the viewers to observe and to think about what they saw.
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My girlfriend and i are planning getting married some time in the future, she consider herself christian while i'm a open atheist, but not vocal about it. Obviously, how we'll raise our children has been a topic of discussion; while we agree on the most part, she wants him/her to be a christian from day 1 while i want him/her to decide for him/her self when the time is right be it any religion or none at all.
I'm the only non-religious and anti-religious from both sides of the family, i sometimes think there will be a war over my children's mind and i don't want them to live through that or see their family waging over fables.
What would be the best course of action?
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Im sure you could give me 1000's of examples, & I can read 1000's of studies about child upbringing, but what you fail to see is that a child is an individual, you don't plan a child's upbringing before it's born just by your own militant way of thinking. & if you do, you may/will do more damage than good.
My daughter is very wise for her age, she see's the world a little differently than other children, & if she wasn't like that (maybe) I would be a little more militant in my way of thinking, but im glad im not & I don't have to be.
Im happy im not bringing her up in the house/school that I was brought up in. I wont allow it.
Obviously I think you are right, otherwise i would not be on here. But I would try to reason with her and use their own weapons against them. So try to convince her that since you both can not agree, you will leave it to her god. Not influence the child in any direction and leave it up to god to direct the child. So you will not stear him/her away from religion, she will not influence him/her with religion, and the almighty will call the child to him when he wants. She should agree to leave it up to god no ? And on the positive side, you will get a free thinking open minded kid, Since if we all would wait to get religious untill god/gods/upper beings would call upon us..we would all be atheists, and the world would be a better place.
| you will leave it to her god
She's that religious so it won't work on her, plus me just mentioning god would alerts her that i'm planning something.
That could be done, she isn't very religious so it could work.
Pressure from future grandparents and other family about sacraments and such could be intense. If that is not an issue, I agree that two people in love could work out some sort of agreement ahead of time. Since the child will be subjected to religious ideology fairly often, I would determine if you would be allowed to represent a counter point in the child's life.
...if you would be allowed to represent a counter point of view
That's what she fears the most, while she doesn't mind me being an atheist, she doesn't want her child to be one or a satanist. She believes that religion will teach her values that she couldn't be taught otherwise. She even believes that religion helps one to reason by discussing the different meaning of a verse, not far off but religion if far from open to discussing alternatives.
Now we're on to something here. If she isn't very religious herself and she isn't currently practicing the faith, I think it would do you some good to let her talk while you listen. Try to better understand what she feels religion has to offer your future children. Once you have a good grasp of what values (besides the god is real thing) she wishes to instill in your children, you can start to offer and explain alternatives. If you just tell her no and fight against religion, than to her there's nothing in its place, there's no structure, and that can be scary.
I went through this a bit with my boyfriend, but it seems that he was perhaps even less religious than your girlfriend at the time. He was raised catholic, like me, but more so considered himself agnostic. He didn't really believe in the whole god thing, but he respected the way he was brought up and wanted the same for his children. It wasn't until I spoke to him about how I wanted to teach my kids kindness and respect and curiosity about the world (rather than just harping on how much I didn't want to raise them in the church) that he started to come around and even add ideas to it. Since your girlfriends seems to buy into the whole god thing a bit more than my boyfriend, you may or may not get there, but a better understanding couldn't hurt.
I was just in a very similar position. Someone suggested a book to me. "Raising Freethinkers".
I will email it to you in pdf in you will give me an addy to send it to.
Don't fall for it. They're going to do everything in their might to overpower you and indoctrinate that child into bullshit dogma. As soon as you leave the house for work they're gonna crack open a bible.
Just to clarify this is a genuine question.
How could you get married to a strongly religious person?
I struggle to be friends with the religious, let alone a relationship.


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10 Newspapers That Do It Right 2013
By: Kristina Ackermann
As newspapers trudge on through report after report of declining ad sales, shrinking audience, and waning relevancy, they are also, thankfully, getting better at tooting their own horns.
If the industry has come to learn anything from the Great Recession, it's that we produce a product, a product that needs to be marketed just as well as — if not better than — any other product. This year's 10 Newspapers That Do It Right are all prime examples of how newspapers can flex their marketing muscle to take back their place in the community, produce the high-quality products that readers demand, and update their sales tactics to accommodate the needs of modern advertisers.
Their results are sometimes tangible — like the Arizona Daily Star, which earned back the advertising dollars of grocery stores that had switched to a local competitor, or the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, which produced and sold hardcover books honoring local veterans in its community. Often the results can't be seen — like The Vancouver Sun, which draws 550,000 pageviews per month by catering to a niche audience of Chinese-Canadian readers, or The Denver Post, whose iPad app is so popular it's currently being replicated across the Digital First Media titles.
The newspapers featured on the following pages are making a difference, not in leaps and bounds necessarily, but in calculated, thoughtful steps designed to position them to seize even more opportunities for growth. All is not doom and gloom in our industry, and these papers are the proof.
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Ariz.
Circulation: 138,545 Sunday; 95,844 daily
Not content to take the industry-wide drop in advertising lying down, the Arizona Daily Star launched an aggressive campaign to reclaim local grocery inserts from a direct mail competitor — and won.
Chase Rankin, vice president of advertising, sales, and marketing, led the Daily Star on a mission to recapture lost grocery inserts, which had dwindled to only one advertiser in spring 2011. The goal was set high, and Rankin accurately predicted that once the leading grocer in the market returned to the paper, others would follow suit. Fry's Food (a division of Kroger) began by running run-of-paper ads in both the Daily Star and the paper's nonsubscriber product, Buyer's Edge. By fall 2012, Fry's moved its full insert business to the paper, and Safeway and Sprouts weren't far behind.
"We knew that grocery inserts were vital to us for revenue and readership," Rankin said. "We also knew it wouldn't be easy to get the grocers back. It took patience, a lot of customer care, innovative ideas, and ongoing teamwork from everyone in the organization."
Rankin also knew that getting those advertisers back wasn't enough — he had to give them a reason to stay. The second phase of the Daily Star's grocery strategy was to strengthen the Buyer's Edge product. More ROP advertisers were added, paper stock was upgraded, an online component was added, and weekly distribution was increased to total market coverage of 420,000 households.
As the inserts grew to add value to the Wednesday edition of the Daily Star, the circulation department capitalized by adding Wednesday to all subscription options, resulting in a 47 percent increase in Wednesday home-delivery and even greater value for Wednesday advertisers.
According to market development director Darrell Durham, the paper's annual revenue from grocery advertising jumped more than twofold from 2011 to 2013. Revenue gains from the Buyer's Edge jacket have come to represent 13 percent of the Daily Star's annual revenue.
The Dallas Morning News
Dallas, Texas
Circulation: 700,649 Sunday; 410,131 daily
In 2008, when The Dallas Morning News experienced its second year in a row of declining print ad revenue, publisher and chief executive officer Jim Moroney decided he didn't want to wait to see how 2009 would turn out. The A.H. Belo flagship has since set a pitch-perfect example of what a diversified media company can accomplish.
Though the Morning News achieved additional circulation revenue from an across-the-board price increase in May 2009, plus revenue from commercial printing contracts with The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Investor Business Daily, and USA Today, even these sources began to level off in 2011. That's when the paper's executives started to look at "below the line" — or niche — marketing revenue.
"We wondered if we could get into this 'below the line' marketing space and thereby earn revenue from other parts of our customers' marketing budgets," Moroney said. "We also wanted to get into the small and medium (size) business space, a group of customers we had long since priced out of the metro paper."
The resulting effort was a combined strategy of launching new businesses and acquiring others. In March 2012, DMN Media launched 508 Digital to provide digital marketing services to small- and medium-sized businesses at prices that can compete with the do-it-yourself options already available. This was followed in July by the acquisition of Pegasus News, which provides local entertainment news for the Dallas/Fort Worth area. In August, the company formed CrowdSource, an event marketing company that has already produced a cooking show that drew more than 8,000 paid attendees, and a Walk to the Park event that invited attendees to walk to a new park in downtown Dallas for an afternoon of live music, food, and entertainment.
In September 2012, the Morning News formed Speakeasy, a social media marketing agency that caters to medium and large businesses, and in December the paper acquired certain assets of DG Publishing, Inc., a magazine publisher of high-end resource guides, including Design Guide Texas and The Texas Wedding Guide. And Moroney said the company is just getting started.
"While we are proud to have started or acquired five new businesses in 2012, we will continue to pursue a strategy that builds new sources of revenue off the foundation of our brand, our core competencies, and our infrastructure," Moroney said.
The Denver Post
Denver, Colo.
Circulation: 604,184 Sunday; 412,669 daily
2012 was a busy news year for Colorado, with deadly wildfires that swept across the state in the hot summer months, the July 20 mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, and then the national attention of being a swing state in the November presidential election. All this delivered the opportunity for a news media company to deliver a truly exceptional product to an information-hungry audience — and The Denver Post did just that.
As part of the Digital First Media empire, the Denver Post was quick to establish real-time, multimedia coverage of breaking news events, plus investigations into the deeper issues that arose, such as faulty reverse 911 systems reported during the Colorado wildfires. News director Kevin Dale said the paper filed hundreds of breaking news updates for the Aurora movie theater shooting and followed up in print with a poignant special section honoring the heroes.
"We have built a foundation of journalists who are skilled enough to produce powerful reporting — it starts with the content," Dale said. "Then, we have tried to create an entrepreneurial atmosphere in production and delivery to serve that content to our readers in smart ways."
The content delivery platform of choice for the Denver Post is the iPad, and the paper's second-generation iPad app, launched Aug. 1, 2012, has been heralded across the industry as the new standard in news app development — mostly because it doesn't look anything like a newspaper. With two options for the home screen layout, enhanced social media integration, continuous scrolling, and improved advertising server opportunities, the app's design has been replicated across the DFM network, providing company-wide mobile growth.
"Our goal is to provide a tablet experience that our audience has not seen before," said Ed Moss, president and chief executive officer of the Denver Post and executive vice president of DFM.
Another digital initiative that is gaining momentum at the Denver Post is an e-book initiative that has opened up new distribution channels for both content and advertising. The two e-books launched so far have been a snow skiing guide and a "pictures of the year" compendium. The paper's strategy is to create several small e-books each year, with three or four more substantial efforts that utilize original reporting and interactive features.
Lawrence Journal-World
Lawrence, Kan.
Circulation: 26,555 Sunday; 25,580 daily
The Lawrence Journal-World believes in the power of local news, and has scaled its national and world coverage way back in order to accommodate more of what its readers want on every platform: print, mobile, and online. The result has been a diverse blend of multiplatform content that residents of Lawrence can't get anywhere else.
In addition to its award-winning main news site, the Journal-World offers stand-alone sites for coverage of local sports (the University of Kansas is located in Lawrence), entertainment, healthy living, and local businesses. Star columnists drive a loyal following both in print and online, and there are mobile apps dedicated to KU sports coverage and local headlines.
"Our objective is to reach audiences and advertisers through every channel, medium, and device they want us on," said vice president of content Mark Potts. "We don't talk about just being digital-first; we want to be audience-first."
Specifically, the audience-first strategy means not ignoring print, and the Journal-World has recently launched a new print Sunday arts section, plus new health and business pages. Further plans to augment the print edition include sections aimed at shopping and nightlife.
"We devote our resources to blanket coverage of our local market. Our news and advertising departments work closely together — we're even housed in the same room — for shared success, creating products that are both good for readers and will bring in revenue," Potts said.
Other successful revenue-generating ventures at the Journal-World have been a daily deals program, which grossed nearly $200,000 in 2012 with 11,969 deals sold, and a loyalty program called LawrenceGiveback that gives back to local charities by providing them with a percentage of sales from local merchants who accept the Giveback card. There are currently 17,000 Giveback users, with 53 local businesses and 75 charities participating. The program has donated more than $200,000 over the past four years.
In the coming months, Potts said the Journal-World will remain committed to researching and experimenting in the digital space as more and more readers move to mobile devices.
"We want to find the mobile solution that's as vital to living life in Lawrence as the printed newspaper has been for 122 years," he said. "For us, it's all local, all about serving the local audience and advertisers."
The Orange County Register
Santa Ana, Calif.
Circulation: 387,547 Sunday; 285,088 daily
Ever since 39-year-old entrepreneur Aaron Kushner took the helm at The Orange County Register in July 2012, the announcements of new hires, products, and developments have been nearly constant. Kushner and partner Eric Spitz, first-time newspaper owners with a history of running successful digital businesses, have the benefit of seeing the industry with fresh eyes and are not confined to the "way we've always done it" mentality.
"The Register is defying conventional wisdom that calls for newspapers to shrink the newspaper and staff that supports it, and choosing to invest rather than save our way to prosperity," said communications consultant Eric Morgan.
Under Kushner, the Register's new strategy calls for providing customers with rich content and a higher-quality product. It's opening digital channels but not simply repurposing print content in an online format. It's adding new sections, providing more locally focused information, strengthening investigative reporting, adding color and page thickness to the print product, and adjusting pricing accordingly.
Subscribers who balk at the increased price of the print subscription will soon be unable to access the same content for free online. Although Morgan wouldn't share details about the Register's digital pricing strategy, he did confirm that a paywall is coming, and the paper is targeting spring for the launch.
"Kushner believes many newspaper readers have stopped subscribing because the value proposition is not what it once was," Morgan said. "It's true that more people are reading news online, but it certainly isn't helping your fate when news providers publish the same information found in a paid newspaper on the website for free."
It's still too soon to tell if Kushner's strategy will pay off, though Morgan said both daily and Sunday circulation is up, as well as advertising. If nothing else, the young entrepreneur has captured the attention of the industry, reaping equal parts praise and skepticism from pundits and colleagues. There's a new energy, and there are new jobs (the Register has hired 100 new staff members since Kushner arrived). More importantly, the Register has given the notoriously blasé Southern California population a reason to pay attention to newspapers again.
Seven Days
Burlington, Vt.
Circulation: 35,000 weekly
In the rural state of Vermont, the independent weekly Seven Days is moving the needle by expanding in ways that allow for repurposing and repackaging smart, lively content.
"Revenue wise, 2012 was our best year ever," said publisher Paula Routly.
The company has diversified its revenue streams considerably in the past few years, adding video content, mobile and tablet apps, and niche publications, including a monthly parenting magazine, annual dining guide, another guide for college students, and a bilingual (French and English) quarterly for tourists that's produced in partnership with Burlington International Airport.
Seven Days' strength lies largely in its community events: homebuyer seminars, singles mixers, plus unique, statewide events that generate revenueand reinforce the brand of the core print product. One is Vermont Tech Jam, a two-day job fair and tech expo that Seven Days launched in 2008 with a coalition of private- and public-sector partners.
"Unlike many newspapers, (Seven Days) still has a robust employment classified section, and our involvement with the Tech Jam began as an opportunity to add a face-to-face event for those clients who advertise jobs with us — something Craigslist and other online competitors can't do," Routlysaid. "Over time, we were able to align ourselves with the tech-industry trade group, and we now partner exclusively with the Vermont Technology Alliance to organize the Tech Jam."
The Jam has sold out of exhibitor space the last two years, with more than 80 companies and organizations participating and about 2,000 people attending over the course of two days. The event has earned the paper recognition on the state level, and even had Google as a sponsor in 2011.
Seven Days has also expanded its coverage of the state's Restaurant Week by launching 7 Nights, the annual dining and nightlife guide, and boosting its food writing staff. The paper sells sponsorships for the event and bundles the price of participation with advertising in 7 Nights to encourage larger ads in the guide. More than 80 restaurants participated in 2012, and the paper supports the local community by donating a portion of the proceeds to the Vermont Foodbank.
Sioux City Journal
Sioux City, Iowa
Circulation: 34,445 Sunday; 30,997 daily
In April 2012, a 14-year-old Sioux City high school student took his own life after suffering aggressive bullying at school, online, and even via text message. Rather than simply report on the tragedy as a straight news story, the editorial staff at the Sioux City Journal decided the paper needed to do something more.
On Sunday, April 22, the Sioux City Journal published a full frontpage editorial that began, "We must stop bullying. It starts here. It starts now."
Though the Journal had published frontpage editorials before, it had never dedicated the entire front page to an opinion piece. Accompanied by powerful artwork created by syndicated cartoonist Brian Duffy, the editorial had an immediate and dramatic impact in the community.
"We feel unequivocally that if the Journal is to remain relevant in this increasingly fractured society, we have to be forceful advocates for our community through a strong, proactive editorial voice," said editor Mitch Pugh.
The paper's bold message didn't begin and end with one op-ed. It also worked with the local Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention to form the Bullying Prevention Community Coalition, a resource for parents, students, and education professionals. The editorial sparked action from state and national leaders, and Iowa held its first statewide bullying summit in November.
Since its April call to action, the Journal has run three other prominent editorials, and the staff plans to keep writing. Though reader response has been overwhelmingly positive, Pugh said the paper's stance has affected its relationships with local school officials. "It simply isn't easy for a community to unflinchingly reflect on its shortcomings, even when it comes to something as universally despised as bullying," he said.
A strong editorial voice is at the heart of the Journal's strategy for addressing the present challenges of the newspaper industry.
"Newspapers cannot expect to become more relevant and profitable by shrinking from the core responsibilities. Rather than cutting the number of local editorials, ceasing candidate endorsements, and eliminating opinion page editors, newspapers should be doubling down on such leadership," Pugh said. "(Readers) may not always agree with us, and we've taken our fair share of heat due to this philosophy, but the community appreciates the role we've embraced to try to make Sioux City a better place to live and work."
The Vancouver Sun
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Circulation: 176,760 Saturday; 152,803 daily
There are more than 400,000 Chinese-Canadians in metro Vancouver, roughly one-fifth of the area's total population. It is the largest minority group in the region, and one of the fastest growing. As such, it only makes sense that any local newspaper looking to grow its audience must effectively tap this demographic.
The Vancouver Sun, part of Postmedia's Pacific Newspaper Group, created a niche news website that leverages the well-earned trust and authority of the newspaper's brand and expands its reach into this important immigrant community.
"The plan was to do some original reporting in Chinese, to translate Vancouver Sun stories that had unique appeal to new Canadians, to sift the world's wire services for stories and photos of intense local/cultural interest, and, finally, to form a group of community bloggers composed of some of the most influential members of the local Chinese community and the Chinese-Canadian community abroad," said Paul Bucci, PNG's director of digital products.
The Sun's newsroom and Pacific News Group's digital team launched Taiyangbao — which, translated, means "Sun newspaper" — in December 2011. Bucci said audience response was "immediate and impressive."
In the first month after its launch, taiyangbao.ca received more than 140,000 pageviews, according to Bucci, and the site now has about 550,000 pageviews per month. Taiyangbao's audience is 65 percent Canadian, with the remainder of views coming from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the U.S.
Where there are readers, advertisers are bound to follow, and Bucci said Taiyangbao sold out the site's advertising inventory for its first three months, with total ad revenue now in excess of $150,000.
"Revenue for the site keeps growing, and there are lots of advertising opportunities on Taiyangbao, from sponsored blogs, to small tile ads, to the standard big box and leaderboard units," Bucci said. "We've even set up a self-serve news release system where clients can post an announcement for a small fee."
Taiyangbao content is produced in the Sun newsroom and translated into traditional and simplified Chinese. "But it's not a simple translation service," Bucci stressed. "We, like other newspapers, can successfully transform ourselves to deliver more new and intensely local products that capitalize on our strengths and offer added service and attraction to ever-growing audiences and revenue opportunities."
The Virginian-Pilot
Norfolk, Va.
Circulation: 168,308 Sunday; 132,590 daily
Although there are plenty of newspapers experimenting with new content and new ways to deliver it, very few are following up that strategy with a targeted, strategic methodology on the sales side. The Virginian-Pilot is one of the few.
"In 2012, we completed our conversion from print-only sales reps to multimedia sales professionals who now offer the full suite of products and services across print and digital," said advertising research manager Michael Lambert. "This marked the move from a 'compete' sales model to a 'collaborate' model."
This transition occurred in measurable, attainable steps and included several key initiatives. First, all managers, reps, and sales support participated in a yearlong training curriculum that included terminology, products, pricing, building action plans, and analytics. Next, the staff revised the entire sales and fulfillment process from top to bottom, producing new collateral and marketing pieces to support sales efforts. All sales goals and commissions were revised in order to drive behaviors that support the new model. Finally, personnel were tested for their competency in the new system (both written and demonstration tests). Those who couldn't pass on the second try were shown the door (don't worry, pass rate was 98 percent).
The result? Digital sales are up 25 percent year-over-year from 2011. The sales process itself is running smoothly and efficiently since fulfillment efforts for print and digital have been centralized and aligned. The Pilot also invested in improved sales materials (both electronic and printed) to help the newly educated sales reps continue to drive revenue growth.
The decision to redefine the entire sales process was, thankfully, not taken lightly. The objectives were put in place only after the Pilot had exhausted the market analytics available.
"We embarked upon a program to systematically analyze the universe of businesses in our market in order to determine market penetration and to determine if we had the right products, pricing, and sales channels to serve the various businesses," Lambert said. "This initiative was undertaken on the premise that national business and major accounts will be spending less, and that local small-to medium-size businesses are where the opportunity lies."
Williamsport Sun-Gazette
Williamsport, Pa.
Circulation: 28,629 Sunday; 21,635 daily
Every Monday since early 2007, the Williamsport Sun-Gazette has published a full-page feature highlighting the story of a local veteran of World War II or Korea in his or her own words. Titled Defenders of Freedom, the feature began when the local Korean War Veterans Association approached reporter David Thompson to publicize the local Korean War veterans color guard, which attends hundreds of veterans' funerals annually. The interviews are accompanied by photos of uniforms, awards, and other memorabilia, plus then-and-now photographs of the veterans during their time of service.
"Many of the men and women featured enjoyed the hometown celebrity status gained when their story was published," said publisher Bernard (Bernie) Oravec. "Interest in the stories then snowballed until we had a waiting list of veterans who wished to talk with us."
The series eventually became so popular that the paper compiled the stories into a 304-page, full-color hardback book, also titled "Defenders of Freedom," guided by the skilled hands of graphic designer Tim Wertz.
"We held a reception for the veterans featured in the book prior to its public release and presented each with a complimentary copy," Oravec said. "The men had a great time sharing stories over dinner and collecting autographs from one another."
After the first volume sold nearly 2,500 copies, the Gazette followed up with a second volume that included even more stories. Copies were donated to local veterans' hospitals, libraries, and a hospice, and sold to the general public for $34.95.
"Our advertising department also sold display advertising in the book, which nearly covered the actual printing costs," Oravec said. "Our actual net profit was about $22 to $24 per book."
The Gazette is on a roll with these specialty titles and has already branched out to include book and magazine coverage of local high school sports, with future plans to feature other historical topics.
"Books published with existing newspaper content provide a great source of new revenue for newspapers," Oravec said. "The key to success is to start with a popular column or series and enhance with photos."


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - UK employment - Could you help with info please? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in UK employment - Could you help with info please? Goto page 1, 2, 3 Next Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> United Kingdom View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message GaryWolfJoined: 24 Apr 2004Posts: 27 Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 4:18 am Post subject: UK employment - Could you help with info please? I am a British English Language Teacher with a basic TEFL certificate and a university degree. I have been teaching Business English in Brazil for the past seven years. I am returning to the UK this year and would like to know what to expect from the schools in the UK that teach Business English. I am only interested in teaching Business English. If anyone could help with any of the following questions I would be very grateful. 1 What would I expect to be paid per hour teaching Business English? 2 Would I be likely to be employed permanently to work mornings, afternoons or all week? What is usual? 3 What if there are no students one week or every other week etc. Would I still be paid for these days/ weeks with most schools? 4 If there are training days, would I be expected to be paid for them? Here in Brazil it's not common. 5 Would I be paid for class preparations time, or would I only be paid for my time in class and be expected to prepare for the class? What is common in the UK? (I'm not complaining or anything, just asking what the norm is there) 6 What about employment law, would the school have to employ me for a certain minimum set of hours, or could they employ me only for the hours I work each week? In fact, what about all the legal factors in relation to all my questions above. Really, I would like all these questions answered, and any more info on employment for English Language Teachers in the UK. I have been here in Brazil for seven years and worked for quite a few schools and myself. The schools here vary very much. My problem now is that I don't know how to prepare myself for this kind of work in the UK. How would I know if I am being employed legally, or if my new employer is taking advantage of me regarding working hours etc. I have tried everywhere to find answers to the questions above, but am unable. Can anyone help please? Many thanks G Wolf Back to top Blueali13Joined: 26 Apr 2004Posts: 20Location: Somewhere wet and cold... Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 5:37 pm Post subject: GaryWolf I did a quick search on 'tinternet and found these sites which might help http://www.eflteachingjobs.com/ http://www.tefl-teaching-vacancies.co.uk/ http://www.teaching-jobs-uk.com/ Not sure if they are what you're looking for but have a go you never know there might be someone out there with just the right info at the right time. Back to top GaryWolfJoined: 24 Apr 2004Posts: 27 Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 5:50 pm Post subject: Thanks Blue. I'll give the sites a try and post any good info I get back here. Back to top AfraJoined: 02 Feb 2003Posts: 389 Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 2:10 pm Post subject: I don't think there are many business English jobs around. I taught general English in an HE/FE college on the south coast. The contract was termly but if the students faded away, so did my job. I was paid contact time only. I wasn't paid for any preparation, meeting or PD time or holidays. I taught 10 - 12 and 1 - 3 and evenings if I could organise enough students to make a class. There was scope for me to increase my hours over several campuses but that involved a lot of travelling so it wasn't very productive. Most people got work through contacts, the jobs were never advertised. My advice would be to avoid the UK as EFL is looked on as a second income - but I may be jaundiced! Back to top GaryWolfJoined: 24 Apr 2004Posts: 27 Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 3:19 pm Post subject: Afra Thanks for your reply. It was really helpful. G Wolf Back to top SueHJoined: 01 Feb 2003Posts: 1022Location: Northern Italy Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 8:02 pm Post subject: Gary, I'd have to largely agree with Afra. I currently teach at 3 HE/FE colleges on the South coast and am paid (with an allowance for holiday pay/prep etc.) at just over GBP 20 per contact hour. I'm currently going for a full time or 80% job at one of the colleges. It was apparently advertised in the Times Ed but most colleges tend to advertise in the local press because they aren't offering long term contracts which would make it viable for someone to move for. The work in FE colleges is general EFL or ESOL although nursing English courses seem to be a growing trend, and specific business teaching is more usually the remit of the private colleges. Hourly pay is likely to be lower and hours less reliable. At least with the FE college if the students don't turn up I still get paid, as happened to me earlier this year. Most teachers with established posts tend to be pretty experienced, the large majority with time served abroad and often with full teaching qualifications. The advantages of teaching at colleges is that they will pay for further training and most also allow you a leisure course free as well. I've just done my RYA Day Skipper theory qualification courtesy of one college. Next September I'm thinking I ought to try Spanish to add to my decent Italian and adequate French as well as upgrading my teacher quals. Hope this helps a bit. Back to top GaryWolfJoined: 24 Apr 2004Posts: 27 Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 2:48 am Post subject: Sue Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I'm not a qualified teacher. Therefore, I can't go for a job in HE or other. But good luck on your job interview for the fulltime job. Thanks Back to top SueHJoined: 01 Feb 2003Posts: 1022Location: Northern Italy Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 6:19 am Post subject: Gary, Slight misunderstanding there - you _can_ go for a job in FE but there is competition from more qualified staff. Also the government wants to increase qualifications so you would probably have to commit to increasing your formal qualifications, initially via C&Gs in a 2 stage exam and then a cert ed. This can be done P/T and the colleges normally pay tuition as I noted before. Back to top scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15341 Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 10:48 am Post subject: ukofgbandni Twice in my career (if that is the word for it) I went back to the UKofGB&NI, thinking I could slot back into teaching there. It was not pleasant. I did not get full-time work in teaching and after a steep learning curve decided that I had to choose whether I wanted to teach in a series of temporary and part-time jobs, or take a non-teaching job at low wages. In the end - both times - I decided that working outside the UK was the only way. And so I am reaching the twilight of my years as a permanent exile. Now I am 57 and it is too late to even think about returning to the UK to teach. To live - well even if I win the lottery I think I will give "Perfidious Albion" a miss. Leave it to the football players, pop singers, corrupt politicians and other celebrities. When I see Britain now I cannot help but think that the Britain of my Youth was a better place. The Past is another country. Maybe this is just a rewrite of the "Fox and the Grapes" by Aesop !Last edited by scot47 on Fri May 07, 2004 9:45 am; edited 1 time in total Back to top GaryWolfJoined: 24 Apr 2004Posts: 27 Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 7:45 am Post subject: Sue Once again, thanks for your input. I didn't know I could go for work in FE. You seem to be pretty clued up on things in the UK. I heard recently that they are going to clamp down on private English schools that are not recognised or they will need to be registered in the future. Do you know anything about this Sue? Back to top GaryWolfJoined: 24 Apr 2004Posts: 27 Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 7:50 am Post subject: Scot Sorry to hear about your dislike of the UK. Hope things workout for you in the Middl East. Back to top Benjamin SemwayoJoined: 05 May 2004Posts: 2Location: *************************** Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 8:06 pm Post subject: My name is Ben and this is my first time to post a contribution in this forum. I am a graduate supply teacher from Zimbabwe. I agree with the observations made by Scott47. Like him I have found job hunting in this country both frustrating and unpleasant. I have been a supply teacher for two years now and although I have sought a permanent position both through agencies and applying to schools directly, I have not been successful. The problem with supply work is that it is not consistent. Sometimes you get work and sometimes you don't. I hope my contribution sheds some light on employment for teachers in the UK. Back to top GaryWolfJoined: 24 Apr 2004Posts: 27 Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 1:23 pm Post subject: Benjamin Thanks for your input. Are you still in the UK? Hope you find some permanent work soon. Good luck G Wolf Back to top GaryWolfJoined: 24 Apr 2004Posts: 27 Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 1:30 pm Post subject: Benjamin I have another question for you. You said that you work for other schools temporarily. Is it legal for the school to employ you temporarily? I heard that employment rules in the UK have changed a lot since I was there. Don't they have to employ you permanently, or give you regular work. What happens if you are working for a school, and one week there are no students for you to teach. Does that mean that you don't get paid for that week? If this is so, surely that isn't legal. Please let me know about these things if you can Benjamin. Good luck G Wolf Back to top SueHJoined: 01 Feb 2003Posts: 1022Location: Northern Italy Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 3:27 pm Post subject: Gary, Benjamin may post further, but I think you may find that if he is a supply teacher he is probably fully qualified and working in the state sector as cover. It's not a question of not being employed because there are no students that week; rather a matter of being called in to cover absent teachers or on a temporary basis. Supply teachers tend to sign up to agencies who help get you work but obviously take a cut (but mainly from the school I think?). Private language schools are another matter entirely, and work there probably would be based on how many students there are. That's not to say people don't get full time contract but, to use an electricity generation analogy, those are meeting the guaranteed base load. Many more teachers out there are used to mop up the peak demand. All depends what you can get, but in terms of competition there are an awful lot of excellent English speakers around here! 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The San Diego City Council might have been wiser to ban surf and sand than to ask citizens to raise taxes.
In a stunning development, the council in San Diego -- a city famous for not charging residents many of the same taxes and fees (for utilities or trash) that are routine in other places -- is asking voters to raise the state sales tax.
What's even more fascinating is how the tax is structured. Understanding the widespread local hostility to tax increases, the measure is full of triggers that must be reached before a tax increase go into effect. Among the things the city must do before the tax increase could take effect: outsource city services; lower the pensions for new firefighters, convince city employees to agree to reduce their own pension and health benefits.
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Those are some strong conditions -- but they may not be strong enough to change minds in San Diego about the value of raising taxes.


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Angelina Jolie Pregnant, May Leave Brad Pitt For Knocking Up Jennifer Aniston, Tabloids Claimby Free Britney at .
Wow. The tabloids are starting off 2012 with a bang.
Taking the art of fabricating scandals about Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston to new heights, Star claims Ange temporarily left Brad after finding out that he made a baby with Jen ... which she miscarried ... in 2004 ... while married to Brad.
Seriously, they printed this. A "reliable source" said:
"She assumed all along she was the only woman Brad had ever impregnated. Now Angie is questioning everything, including whether she can ever trust Brad again."
That has her thinking of leaving him for good, supposedly. Maybe.
"Brad doesn't tell Angie everything, especially when it comes to Jen," adds the source. "The mention of Jen makes Angie completely irrational." (That part we buy.)
"But he never imagined this would infuriate Angie to the extent that it has. Now it could spell the end of them forever." Brutal, there's no other way to describe it.
It gets better, incredibly. The National Enquirer says, simultaneously, that in related news ... Angelina Jolie is pregnant right now! In a startling development ...Sources say the thrilled Oscar winner is three months along and can't hide her telltale belly bump ... which is not visible in any of her recent interviews. Details.
"Brad and Angie are ecstatic," an insider said of Brangelina baby #7, allegedly due later this year. "They've been trying to conceive for most of the year."
"It was always their goal to have another biological baby."
"They want to adopt at least one more down the line. But at 36, Angie's biological clock has been ticking like mad. With all of Angie's medical woes lately, she and Brad consider it a blessing and a miracle that she was able to conceive."
"Skeletal" Angie had a very rough first trimester and struggled to keep weight on. However, "she's put on weight over the holidays, stuffing herself with meat and fruit."
Phew. Sometimes a girl needs to stuff herself with meat. Says the source:
"She's completely committed to staying healthy for the sake of her family."
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If you're a regular reader of this blog, you probably already...
The worst type of saturated fat is called trans fat. The reason I say that trans fats are the worst is because they have been shown to both raise "bad" cholesterol (LDL) and lower "good" cholesterol (HDL), increasing the risk of heart disease.
Small amounts of trans fat occur naturally in full-fat dairy products and some meats, but food manufacturers also make a man-made version of trans fat by blasting mostly unsaturated fats (such as vegetable oils) with hydrogen atoms; thereby turning into a saturated fat. This process, known as hydrogenation, is used to lengthen the shelf life of foods and is very cheap. Unfortunately, though, eating foods with hydrogenated oils won't increase our shelf life, and in fact, can have the opposite effect.
In 2005, the FDA passed a law that trans fats be listed on the Nutrition Facts label on all packaged foods. This has lead to many food manufacturers to reformulate their products to use less trans fat, but since the Nutrition Facts label is only required to list trans fats if they exceed half a gram or more per serving, trans fat may still be hiding in some of your favorite packaged foods.
This may not seem like a lot, but the American Journal of Health Promotion discussed this problem in a recent article. In it, Eric Brandt of the Case Western University School of Medicine explains how this makes it easy for consumers to unwittingly exceed suggested maximum intakes of trans fat (TF). Brandt noted that an increase of 2 percent of total energy intake from trans fats could lead to a 23 percent higher risk of cardiovascular disease. He calls for the FDA to change the laws to require products to list the true total trans fat content to provide the most accurate information to the public.
Before the regulations change, though, avoid products that have trans fat as much as possible. And even if a product boasts that it is "trans fat free" or shows 0g of trans fat on the Nutrition Facts label, I recommend that you also take a look at the ingredient list to see if the product is made with any hydrogenated oils. If it is, then the product does contain some man-made trans fat.
Here are a few products that surprisingly are made with trans fats, while still listing zero grams trans fat on their labels. Check your pantry for others:
- Traditional peanut butter: Hydrogenated oils are added to prevent the oil from separating in the peanut butter. Use natural peanut butter instead to ensure that it's trans fat free).
- Many packaged crackers and cookies: Hydrogenated oils are added to increase the shelf life of these packaged foods to save the food manufacturer money. Look for ones without hydrogenated oils in the ingredient list or make your own!
- Cake, bread/muffin, or pancake mixes: Hydrogenated oils are added for flavor, texture, and to increase the shelf life. Since you are hopefully not making cakes everyday, I recommend making them from scratch when you do.
- Frozen pizzas and other frozen foods: Trans fats are added for flavor and to preserve the food. Try buying a 100% whole-wheat pre-made crust and adding your own toppings instead.
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Charlotte Scatliffe is currently the assistant coach for the Gauchos.
Scatliffe was a four-year letter-winner for the Gauchos from 2004-2008, earning All-Big West honors in doubles three times. In fact, in her four years of competition, Scatliffe won nearly 50 doubles matches and 40 singles matches. As a doubles player, she played No. 1 and teamed with several Gauchos, including Marta Simic, Marielle Gruenig, and Andrea Pintar.
A native of San Bernardino, Calif., Scatliffe graduated from UCSB with a BA in sociology in 2008. Since her graduation, she has worked as a tennis pro at Cathedral Oaks Athletic Club in Goleta. Scatliffe also works for the Santa Barbara Tennis Patron, traveling to various elementary and junior high schools in the Santa Barbara and Goleta area, teaching children tennis during their P.E. time.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – MIT made a strong bid for the upset this afternoon in NEFC football action, matching Endicott point for point in the first half before the Gulls were able to pull away in the second half to score a 36-24 victory. Mike Lane ran for 125 yards and a score to lead Endicott (9-1, 6-1 NEFC), while sophomore John Wenzel (Mandeville, La.) threw for 204 yards and two touchdowns to lead MIT (2-7, 1-6 NEFC) in the final game of the 2011 season for the Engineers.
After holding MIT to a three and out on the first drive of the game, Endicott struck the first blow in the contest on its first possession thanks to MIT's first punt attempt going off the side of Wenzel's foot and into the back of the offensive line. As a result the Gulls took over at the MIT 35. Lane took care of all but five yards of the drive, breaking off a 14-yard run before eventually scoring on a four-yard effort for the early 7-0 lead.
MIT got on the board late in the first quarter on a 26-yard field goal by senior Peter Gilliland (Grand Ledge, Mich.), but Endicott matched it with a 27-yard boot by Dylan Rushe with 7:57 left in the second quarter to maintain the seven-point edge.
On MIT's next possession Wenzel's arm proved to be the difference as the Engineers struck for their first touchdown of the day to tie the game. Wenzel hit on passes of 12 yards to sophomore Ben Hessels (Laytonsville, Md.) and nine-yards to senior Justin Kresz (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) before he found freshman Brad Goldsberry (Elizabeth, Colo.) open down the middle for a 43-yard score.
Endicott took advantage of a 26-yard kick return and a personal foul on MIT in getting the ball back on the MIT 33 to start the next drive. Phil Konopka hit Taylor Allen for a key 16-yard gain, and later finished off the drive himself with a one-yard plunge to put the Gulls back on top. Wenzel had the answer again on the next drive, completing all four of his attempts for 45 yards, including a nine-yard toss to Goldsberry for the score that knotted the game back up at 17-17. The Engineers almost went ahead in the final seconds of the half when Gilliland intercepted a Konopka pass and returned it 53 yards to the Endicott 37. A pass attempt into the end zone as time ran out was incomplete, but a personal foul on the Gulls gave the Engineers one more chance. Gilliland's 39-yard field goal attempt for the lead was wide, however.
Endicott won the battle of field position in the third quarter, keeping MIT pinned deep in its territory and getting good field position on offense. The Gulls turned the advantage into a pair of Rushe field goals that gave them a 23-17 lead going into the final quarter.
Early in the fourth a short punt and a catching interference penalty gave Endicott the ball at the MIT 40. Two plays later Konopka found Allen open for the 40-yard score that put the Gulls up 30-17. MIT came back on its next possession and drove down to the Endicott 15, but Wenzel was intercepted by Mike Kearns, who returned it 36 yards to the Endicott 46. From there the Gulls put the game away, going 54 yards in nine plays, capping the drive with a 23-yard Konopka to Mike Murphy scoring play.
MIT came back on its next possession, taking advantage of a penalty on the kickoff to start its drive at the Endicott 46. The Engineers drove to the 12-yard line where they were aided by a pass interference call in the end zone that put the ball on the two. Two plays later Wallace was in for the score to make it 36-24. MIT went for the onside kick, but Endicott recovered and ran out the clock to end the game.
MIT outgained Endicott by a slim 375-367 margin in total yards. Wallace finished with 89 yards on the ground, while Goldsberry had an 11-catch, 104-yard receiving afternoon. Konopka finished by completing 16-of-27 for 211 yards and pair of scores, with Mike Fimiani catching six passes for 36 yards. On defense the Gulls were led by Kevin Eagan who had 15 tackles, including a sack. Freshman Cameron Wagar (West Richland, Wash.) led MIT with eight stops.